Quotes by Javier Bardem

Javier Bardem

[That night] I was sitting by Jack Nicholson with my long list of thanks, and I said, `I’m so nervous. I don’t know what to say if I go up there.’ He said, `Don’t get emotional, drop the names, and dedicate it to your mother.’

Emotional

Mom

Mother

A part of being an actor is I people watch. I like to observe their behaviour, watch their reactions on the street and see how they talk to each other, and that’s impossible when they are looking back at you. I used to enjoy taking the train and watching people in their own minds, struggling with themselves.

Mind

People

Struggle

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

Age

Essence

Reality

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.

Good Movie

Matter

Stories

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

Actors

Awards

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?’

Hands

Reality

Two

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.”

Character

Judging

Play

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.

Awards

Believe

People

Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there’s a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.

Events

Political

Running

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.

Actors

Art

Doing Me

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Amazing Job

Answers

Art

Awards

Bad News

Barcelona

Baseball

Be Good

Beats

Believe

Believer

Block

Body

Born

Boys

Business

Car

Care

Catholic

Challenges

Champion

Chance

Character

Choices

Class

Cost

Country

Couple

Crazy

Cutting

Debt

Denial

Different

Directors

Dna

Doing Me

Done

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Emotional

Energy

Essence

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Eye

Fans

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Quotes by Javier Bardem

Javier Bardem

[That night] I was sitting by Jack Nicholson with my long list of thanks, and I said, `I’m so nervous. I don’t know what to say if I go up there.’ He said, `Don’t get emotional, drop the names, and dedicate it to your mother.’

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

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.

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

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.”

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.

Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there’s a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.

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.

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