Javier Bardem

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Life is not perfect.”

“אני ספרדי וזאת בסך הכול עובדה גאוגרפית, לטוב ולרע. אני לא נותן יותר מדי חשיבות למקום אליו אני שייך.”

“סרטים מלאים באלימות, החיים מלאי אלימות, אנחנו חייבים לתת ביטוי לאלימות. השאלה היא איך? כיצד האלימות מצטיירת?”

“כשאני מגלם נבל אני תמיד זוכר ששחקנים הם עורכי הדין של הדמויות אותן הם מגלמים. אנחנו מגנים על הדמות ולא משנה מה. ברגע שאתה מתחיל לשפוט את הדמות שלך, אתה לא עושה את העבודה שלך כמו שצריך.”

“אחד השיעורים שלמדתי מאימי השחקנית היה שאתה אף פעם לא מתחתן עם הצלחה או כישלון, כי שניהם שקרנים.”

“יש הרבה שחקנים גדולים שאין להם אוסקר, ויש שחקנים, שחקנים בינוניים כמוני, שכבר יש להם אוסקר אחד. כך שזה לא אומר הרבה.”

“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.”