Javier Bardem quotes

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control. (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
My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully.
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.
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I've always said I don't believe in God, I believe in Al Pacino.
Javier Bardem
The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier.
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We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.
Javier Bardem
I'm a great believer in stunt doubles. They do an amazing job.
Javier Bardem
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.
Javier Bardem
I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.
Javier Bardem
I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan. (Javier Bardem)
But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected.
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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.
Javier Bardem
I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts.
Javier Bardem
I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.
Javier Bardem
We live in the moment now where this whole movie business is crazy.
Javier Bardem
The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.
Javier Bardem
Many people out there don't have a choice in choosing their friends and the people they're being manipulated by. Thank God, I have that choice. I can use my judgment and choose.
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.
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I can't imagine what it would be like being James Bond 24 hours. That must be exhausting.
Javier Bardem
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. (Javier Bardem)
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
An award doesn't necessarily make you a better actor.
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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.
Javier Bardem
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.
Javier Bardem