Spanish - Actor | March 1, 1969 -
I was emotionally and physically punched in the stomach. This is not a place where you go and deliver the lines and then you come back. It's kind of a life-changing experience. But it can't get better than this for any actor - this is like an opera.
Javier Bardem
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Really, I don't see this heart-throb thing at all.
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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?'
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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?'
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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.
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You want to do your job well so that people in the future say, 'OK, he's not bad, let's hire him.'
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I retired from rugby because I was old and getting really slow.
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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.
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There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.
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I'm happily married.
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I have a man and a woman in the same body; I have the male and female values in the same body.
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The fact that I like to make characters doesn't mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance.
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