Quotes By Javier Bardem

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

I truly thank whoever's up there for giving me the opportunity to be loved.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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'm happily married.

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

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 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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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?'

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

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.

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.