Javier Bardem Quotes
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Really, I don't see this heart-throb thing at all.
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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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I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.
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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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Life is not perfect.
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Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They're to promote each other's movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and they'll go to see them. It's still the same.
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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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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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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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An award doesn't necessarily make you a better actor.
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You know I don't like to talk about my personal life.
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When I see myself at 14 years old I can put my hands on my head and think: 'How could I have done that?' but at that time it had sense for me. You do the same when you're 20. And now, when you look at people who are 20 years old you ask yourself: 'Was I like that? Was I really like that?'
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The good thing about being an actor, and the gift of being an actor, is that you are beautifully forced to see the world with different eyes.
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When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon your own body and go to someplace else.
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The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional.
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The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier.
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I used to be a good party boy. I'm old. I'm an old man. You pay the consequences. I'm just fine with a couple of drinks, no more than that.
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Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible.
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Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why don't you go to Africa and help people? But I cannot help people, because I am a hypochondriac.
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We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it's only a movie.