Quotes from Javier Bardem

The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional.

The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier.

I've always belonged to the street, and I always will. It's in my DNA.

The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.

What does my performance have to do with Russell Crowe's? Nothing. If I play Gladiator and we all play Gladiator with Ridley Scott in the same amount of time, maybe we have a chance to see who did it best.

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.

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.

You know I don't like to talk about my personal life.

I don't like to talk about my personal life.

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

I don't know how to drive a car.

There is no good side to celebrity.

When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries.

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

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.

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

I don't belive in God. I believe in...Al Pacino.

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

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

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.

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.

Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.

I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making.