Javier Bardem Quotes
There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.
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After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
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We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
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Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there. When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
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In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
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Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.
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I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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The 'Outlander' fans are super-passionate.
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Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.
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The long term sustainable growth in job creation comes from the private sector. It is important that the Obama administration partner with the private sector and come up with the best possible ideas for creating jobs.
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You can look at 'Rumours' and say, 'Well, the album is bright, and it's clean, and it's sunny.' But everything underneath is so dark and murky. What was going on between us created a resonance that goes beyond the music itself.
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There are always times where the place of a commander isn't back with his Major State, but onward with his troops.
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You can sweat by not practicing or you can pick up your clarinet. There's good sweat and there's bad sweat.
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I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time.
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I think it's a great handicap to be discovered at an early age. I didn't have that burden of early success. I had the much more livable and durable career where success comes late, and comes slowly, and you ease into it. So by the time it comes, you're ready to deal with it.
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There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.
