Javier Bardem Quotes

I do a job and am lucky enough to do a job that I love, but it is a hard one. I'm not saying it is as hard as working in a coal mine, but it is still difficult in a different way. Sometimes you have to go through very strong emotional journeys and then come back to yourself. And that can be difficult to control.
Javier Bardem

Love, Yourself, Strong

I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making.
Javier Bardem

Movies, Care, Long

I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.
Javier Bardem

Character, Job, Long

I have a man and a woman in the same body; I have the male and female values in the same body.
Javier Bardem

Woman, Same, Body

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.
Javier Bardem

Done, Problem, Proud

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

Live, Sunday, 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.
Javier Bardem

Feeling, Person, Trying

I retired from rugby because I was old and getting really slow.
Javier Bardem

Old, Getting, Slow

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

Choices, Truly, Formula

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.
Javier Bardem

Good, Old, Used

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

I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.
Javier Bardem

Afraid, Show, Emotion

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

Work, Good, End

I'm happily married.
Javier Bardem

Married, Happily

I've always belonged to the street, and I always will. It's in my DNA.
Javier Bardem

Street, Dna, Belonged

I've always said I don't believe in God, I believe in Al Pacino.
Javier Bardem

I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan.
Javier Bardem

Said, Playing, Japan

Life is not perfect.
Javier Bardem

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.
Javier Bardem

Work, Best, Strong

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.
Javier Bardem

Work, Best, Art

Really, I don't see this heart-throb thing at all.
Javier Bardem

Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible.
Javier Bardem

Movies, Chance, Quality

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

The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.
Javier Bardem

Important, Order, Meaning

The fact that I like to make characters doesn't mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance.
Javier Bardem

Mean, Made, Fact

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Biography

Nationality: Spanish

Type: Actor

Born: March 1, 1969

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