Javier Bardem Quotes
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I never use that word, retire.
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You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
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I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity.
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People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
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Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it easier to keep things sounding different.
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I know of no serious proposals that would change the way Social Security operates for today's seniors.
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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I don't like plots. I don't know what a plot means. I can't stand the idea of anything that starts in the beginning - you know, 'beginning, middle and end.'
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I think selfishly, as an actor, we always want to do more.
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If I want to, I can sign 20 films for ridiculous amounts of money, but I really want to do different kinds of cinema. I want creative satisfaction.
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Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat.
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One of my central philosophies is to be creatively driven so I have to be extraordinarily creative in the way I get things done and I have to be really flexible. Striving for the best creativity can be a really moving target if you're trying to budget anything because if you come up with a better idea for something and it's going to make the movie stronger then you have to do it. And that's what I do. The difficulty is that you have to use more judgement as a producer then you might in other places. I have to make unbelievably great creative decisions.
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Don't leave you to go find your point of view and your story. You are all you have been given . . . this is who you are, and from where you ought and need to write.
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A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
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I'm obsessed with sparkle for men. It's so funny watching people's reaction to a disco-ball shoe!
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An award doesn't necessarily make you a better actor.
