Quotes By Javier Bardem

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

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

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

You want to do your job well so that people in the future say, 'OK, he's not bad, let's hire him.'

Celebrity is very weird.

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

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.

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

There is no good side to celebrity.

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.

Life is not perfect.

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 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 believe in people.

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

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 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.

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

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

Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it.

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.

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.

You know I don't like to talk about my personal life.

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

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

When I see myself at 14 years old I can put my hands on my head and think: 'How could I have done that?' but at that time it had sense for me. You do the same when you're 20. And now, when you look at people who are 20 years old you ask yourself: 'Was I like that? Was I really like that?'

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

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