Top 40 Javier Bardem Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Only unfulfilled love can be romantic.”

— Javier Bardem

2. “You don’t need a man, you need a champion.”

— Javier Bardem

3. “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.”

— Javier Bardem

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

— Javier Bardem

5. “I think the most difficult love begins with one’s self. How you treat yourself is something you bring to your relationships.”

— Javier Bardem

6. “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

7. “I have a man and a woman in the same body; I have the male and female values in the same body.”

— Javier Bardem

8. “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.”

— Javier Bardem

9. “Many people out there don’t have a choice, in choosing their friends and the people they’re being manipulated by.”

— Javier Bardem

10. “I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.”

— Javier Bardem

11. “This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for an actor. But if you think about it for five minutes you realise it cant be.”

— Javier Bardem

12. “Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that’s not fair. How can you tell what’s best and what’s worst from these awards? We’re talking about art.”

— Javier Bardem

13. “My first part was in a film where I played a sadomasochist who killed people and created fun orgies. I’m a method actor. I went to every orgy in the world.”

— Javier Bardem

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14. “You shall love. Whether you like it or not.”

— Javier Bardem

15. “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?’”

— Javier Bardem

16. “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.”

— Javier Bardem

17. “I used to be a good party boy. I’m old. I’m an old man. You pay the consequences. I’m just fine with a couple of drinks, no more than that.”

— Javier Bardem

18. “There is no middle ground in Hollywood, you’re a failure or you’re a success. That mentality is wild.”

— Javier Bardem

19. “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

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

— Javier Bardem

21. “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.”

— Javier Bardem

22. “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

23. “Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there’s curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn’t speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn’t felt in a while. But I like it.”

— Javier Bardem

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

— Javier Bardem

25. “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

26. “I wanted to become a painter for a while. I think it was because I was lazy.”

— Javier Bardem

27. “When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.”

— Javier Bardem

28. “I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it’s boring.”

— Javier Bardem

29. “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.”

— Javier Bardem

30. “I’m a great believer in stunt doubles. They do an amazing job.”

— Javier Bardem

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

— Javier Bardem

32. “There is no good side to celebrity.”

— Javier Bardem

33. “We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it’s only a movie.”

— Javier Bardem

34. “I’ve always belonged to the street, and I always will. It’s in my DNA.”

— Javier Bardem

35. “I have this problem with violence. I’ve only done one movie in almost 20 years where I killed people. It’s called Perdita Durango. It’s a Spanish movie. I’m very proud of the movie, but I felt weird doing that.”

— Javier Bardem

36. “People have been born in refugee camps and they are getting tired of that.”

— Javier Bardem

37. “I want to act because I don’t know how to do anything else.”

— Javier Bardem

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

— Javier Bardem

39. “Celebrity is very weird.”

— Javier Bardem

40. “I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on TV Sunday night. Basically, very late at night. You don’t watch, you just read the news after who won or who lost.”

— Javier Bardem