Quotes By Javier Bardem

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

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.

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.

I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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?'