Javier Bardem Quotes

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 I don't believe in God, I believe in Al Pacino.

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.

You shall love. Whether you like it or not.

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

You don't need a man, you need a champion.

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

I'm a great believer in stunt doubles. They do an amazing job.

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

The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier.

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

Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time.

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

Only unfulfilled love can be romantic

An award doesn't necessarily make you a better actor.

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

The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.

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

I think the most difficult love begins with one's self. How you treat yourself is something you bring to your relationships.

I'm a huge fan of the director, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and his work, and I knew he was going to be an amazing actor's director, based on the performances that I saw in his movies.

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 can't imagine what it would be like being James Bond 24 hours. That must be exhausting.

I hate violence. When I hold a gun, I feel death in my hands, but it's fun to pretend in the movies.

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.

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

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.

Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.

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

I don't know how to drive a car. The only thing I can do is act, but it's not something I even feel comfortable doing.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Celebrity is very weird.

People have been born in refugee camps and they are getting tired of that.

As an actor, you can't judge. A great actress from Spain said, "We, the actors, are lawyers of the characters we play. We have to defend them, no matter what."

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

I wanted to become a painter for a while. I think it was because I was lazy.

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.

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.

There is no good side to celebrity.

Many people out there don't have a choice, in choosing their friends and the people they're being manipulated by.

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.

My first part was in a film where I played a sadomasochist who killed people and created fun orgies. I'm a method actor. I went to every orgy in the world.

We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it's only a movie.

All of the good movies are based on how that story was told. And you cannot do it with a bad script, that's for sure, no matter who.

There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.