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Celebrity is very weird.
Javier Bardem -
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.
Javier Bardem
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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.
Javier Bardem -
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.
Javier Bardem -
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.
Javier Bardem -
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.
Javier Bardem -
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.
Javier Bardem -
I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.
Javier Bardem
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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.
Javier Bardem -
I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making.
Javier Bardem -
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.
Javier Bardem -
I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan.
Javier Bardem -
I don't know how to drive a car.
Javier Bardem -
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.
Javier Bardem
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I'm happily married.
Javier Bardem -
There is no good side to celebrity.
Javier Bardem -
Life is not perfect.
Javier Bardem -
You want to do your job well so that people in the future say, 'OK, he's not bad, let's hire him.'
Javier Bardem -
I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.
Javier Bardem -
I've always belonged to the street, and I always will. It's in my DNA.
Javier Bardem
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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.
Javier Bardem -
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.
Javier Bardem -
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.
Javier Bardem -
Really, I don't see this heart-throb thing at all.
Javier Bardem