Javier Bardem Quotes
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Celebrity is very weird.
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I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.
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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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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 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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I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable.
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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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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 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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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 was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.
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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 don't know how to drive a car.
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There is no good side to celebrity.
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I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan.
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I was emotionally and physically punched in the stomach. This is not a place where you go and deliver the lines and then you come back. It's kind of a life-changing experience. But it can't get better than this for any actor - this is like an opera.
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I've always belonged to the street, and I always will. It's in my DNA.
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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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You want to do your job well so that people in the future say, 'OK, he's not bad, let's hire him.'
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When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.
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The only thing I can do is act, but it's not something I even feel comfortable doing. It costs me a lot, because I'm a shy person, even if I don't look it.
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You know I don't like to talk about my personal life.