Javier Bardem Quotes
But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art.
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I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.
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I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.
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Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
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Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.
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I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.
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I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
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Speaking is what most people work on. They forget the thinking and the breathing and instead try to occupy space with sound.
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A lot of people ask how I ended up doing classical music given that I'm in a rock band. The truth is that it's the other way around. I was trained as a classical musician and then started playing in a rock band later.
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I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.
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I don't like fashion. I don't like art. I do like smashing up expensive things.
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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
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But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art.
