Javier Bardem Quotes
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My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I'm strong enough to keep on doing what I think best in an artistic way.
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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.
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Celebrity is very weird.
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When you know people are really at peace with who they are and what they do, they collaborate and want to help you to improve.
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I retired from rugby because I was old and getting really slow.
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Imagine the situation between Israel and Palestine. It's such a big mess. You can be on one side or the other. But what's clear is that there's an urgent need for a solution there and that's been dragging on for so long.
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I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on TV Sunday night. Basically, very late at night. You don't watch, you just read the news after who won or who lost.
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I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.
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When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries.
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I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making.
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The fact that I like to make characters doesn't mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance.
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Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.
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Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art.
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I don't like to talk about my personal life.
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Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.
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I'm happily married.
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I have a man and a woman in the same body; I have the male and female values in the same body.
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I have this problem with violence. I've only done one movie in almost 20 years where I killed people. It's called Perdita Durango. It's a Spanish movie. I'm very proud of the movie, but I felt weird doing that.
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The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.
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I don't know how to drive a car.
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This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for an actor. But if you think about it for five minutes you realise it can't be.
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Life is not perfect.
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And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'
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Really, I don't see this heart-throb thing at all.