Words matter. These are the best Javier Bardem Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We live in a world of denial, and we don’t know what the truth is anymore.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’m happily married.
I believe in people.
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.
We live in the moment now where this whole movie business is crazy.
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?’
I don’t know how to drive a car.
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.
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.
I am always saying, ‘I don’t believe in God; I believe in Al Pacino.’ And that’s true. If I ever get a phone call saying ‘Would you like to work with Al Pacino?’ I would go crazy.
I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that’s what counts.
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.
I was emotionally and physically punched in the stomach. This is not a place where you go and deliver the lines and then you come back. It’s kind of a life-changing experience. But it can’t get better than this for any actor – this is like an opera.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Every time I wake up, I see myself like somebody beat me up.
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.
I’ve always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan.
I want to act because I don’t know how to do anything else.
Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it’s not like it’s a bible.
People have been born in refugee camps and they are getting tired of that.
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.
I retired from rugby because I was old and getting really slow.
The background – your own history – is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional.
There is no good side to celebrity.
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.
I don’t like to talk about my personal life.
The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier.
I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it’s boring.
Really, I don’t see this heart-throb thing at all.
When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries.
The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.
An award doesn’t necessarily make you a better actor.
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.
I do respect people’s faith, but I don’t respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.
The fact that I like to make characters doesn’t mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance.
I truly don’t have any formula for the choices I make.
You know I don’t like to talk about my personal life.