Javier Bardem Quotes
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I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.
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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 retired from rugby because I was old and getting really slow.
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I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.
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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 don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making.
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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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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 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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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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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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I'm happily married.
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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 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 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 don't know how to drive a car.
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The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.
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Life is not perfect.
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I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.
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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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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?'