Javier Bardem Quotes
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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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Really, I don't see this heart-throb thing at all.
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The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.
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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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I retired from rugby because I was old and getting really slow.
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The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier.
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The personal thing is something I have never talked about. And I never will. That is prohibited. My job is public. But that's it. When you're not working, you don't have an obligation to be public.
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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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An award doesn't necessarily make you a better actor.
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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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The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional.
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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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Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.
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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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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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I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else.
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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.
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I don't like to talk about my personal life.
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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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I can't imagine what it would be like being James Bond 24 hours. That must be exhausting.
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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?'