Javier Bardem Quotes

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.

Javier Bardem

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: spanish
  • Birth: March 1, 1969

Topics

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I consider it top priority to improve water quality and increase water quantity in my community.

Joe Baca

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I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

Jill Scott

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You worry just as much about great performance as you do about underperformance.

Mary Callahan Erdoes

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Sometimes breaking the rules is extending the rules.

Mary Oliver

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When I was 16, I had a job on the cleaning crew at a local hospital. I wore a pink uniform and cleaned bathrooms and buffed the hallway linoleum. Oddly, I don't recall hating the job. I recall getting choked up at the end of the summer when I went to turn in my uniform and say goodbye to the ladies.

Mary Roach

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Someone told me that they didn't want to take a flu shot because they didn't want to put a foreign substance in their body. What do they think they do at dinner every night?

Michael Specter

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I've always coached energy, hustling, rushing to the pile, and if it is wiggling, you do hit it because guys are fighting for yardage, and sometimes, you've got to give up the ball because of one inch.

Jon Gruden

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Punishment for doing your job well is an unparalleled professional pressure.

Chris Borland

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Exercise? A Jew doesn't exercise.

William Shatner

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If I have to pick one story that most influenced 'The Hunger Games,' it would be the Greek myth of Theseus, which I read when I was about 8 years old. In punishment for past deeds, Athens periodically had to send seven youths and seven maidens to a labyrinth. In the maze was this Minotaur, and it would eat them.

Suzanne Collins

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I try and imagine myself in situations and figure out how I'd have reacted and responded to them, and then bring that insight into my acting. Much of acting is about borrowing from your real-life experiences.

Suriya

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Open government is, within limits, an ideal that we all share. U.S. President Barack Obama endorsed it when he took office in January 2009.

Peter Singer

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