Javier Bardem Quotes

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Javier Bardem

Profession : Actor

Birth : March 1, 1969

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.

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.

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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 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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I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else.

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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 will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts.

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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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What does my performance have to do with Russell Crowe's? Nothing. If I play Gladiator and we all play Gladiator with Ridley Scott in the same amount of time, maybe we have a chance to see who did it best.

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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 really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making.

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I truly don't have any formula for the choices I make.

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Celebrity is very weird.

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We live in the moment now where this whole movie business is crazy.

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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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My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I'm strong enough to keep on doing what I think best in an artistic way.

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Every time I wake up, I see myself like somebody beat me up.

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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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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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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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