Latest Javier Bardem Quotes from Interviews

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• I've played people that are on the line of evil and good, but that's life. We are always playing with the good and the bad. I see them as people. I don't see them as caricatures. I try to not make them caricatures. Maybe I fail, but I try to see what' behind them. Would I play the hero? A superhero? I don't think so. But, I play good guys. There are some there, but you have to look.

  Javier Bardem

  Hero, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

• I don't think an actor needs to necessarily go through his things to do his job. I think it's way more important to imagine. And then, when you're imagining, your experiences, your images and your own personal things will show up, but you keep imagining. You don't get stuck in your own personal things, otherwise you are telling your story in every character, and that's not interesting for anybody.

  Javier Bardem

  Character, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

• Many people out there don't have a choice, in choosing their friends and the people they're being manipulated by.

  Javier Bardem

  People, Choices

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 27, 2010.

• 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."

  Javier Bardem

  Character, Play, Judging

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 27, 2010.

• I'm a huge fan of the director, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and his work, and I knew he was going to be an amazing actor's director, based on the performances that I saw in his movies.

  Javier Bardem

  Directors, Fans, Actors

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 27, 2010.

• I'm not the kind of actor that gets crazy with [directors'] names, what draws me toward a project is the material itself.

  Javier Bardem

  Crazy, Names, Directors

• When you're working with the best, it helps you to be good because then you are focusing on what you have to do.

  Javier Bardem

  Helping, Be Good

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 27, 2010.

• I hate violence. When I hold a gun, I feel death in my hands, but it's fun to pretend in the movies.

  Javier Bardem

  Fun, Hate, Gun

  Interview with Peter Symth, www.mirror.co.uk. March 30, 2008.

• The earliest memories I have from my childhood are of my mum getting ready to go on stage. I must have been about five and I would watch her vomiting backstage on opening night, and then the next minute she became Isabella, the Queen of Spain. At the time I remember thinking, 'What kind of schizophrenic job is this?' Now it all makes sense.

  Javier Bardem

  Jobs, Queens, Memories

  Interview with Peter Symth, www.mirror.co.uk. March 30, 2008.

• 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.

  Javier Bardem

  Struggle, People, Mind

  Interview with Peter Symth, www.mirror.co.uk. March 30, 2008.

• I wanted to become a painter for a while. I think it was because I was lazy.

  Javier Bardem

  Thinking, Lazy, Painter

  Interview with Peter Symth, www.mirror.co.uk. March 30, 2008.

• I look in the mirror and I don't see a sex symbol. I just see a guy who looks like he's been beaten with a baseball bat. I mean, is this the face of a sex symbol? They say that because I work in the movies.

  Javier Bardem

  Baseball, Sex, Mean

  Interview with Peter Symth, www.mirror.co.uk. March 30, 2008.

• I'm getting so old - it's more uncomfortable to do those scenes now than when I was 20. I mean, I don't have a big problem with nudity on screen. But usually the days when you do those naked love scenes are the weirdest ones on set. Everyone is uncomfortable. You're like, 'Hi. How are you?' Then the next minute you're with an actress who you don't know and you're pretending to make love to her in front of all the crew. The acting challenge is pretending things are OK.

  Javier Bardem

  Mean, Making Love, Challenges

  Interview with Peter Symth, www.mirror.co.uk. March 30, 2008.

• I think the most difficult love begins with one's self. How you treat yourself is something you bring to your relationships.

  Javier Bardem

  Love Is, Thinking, Self

  Interview with Peter Symth, www.mirror.co.uk. March 30, 2008.