Javier Bardem Quotes on Movies (13 Quotes)

An award doesn't necessarily make you a better actor.

The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.

You are always concerned about the makeup work, especially when you are going to do a character movie instead of an action movie.

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.

My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I'm strong enough to keep on doing what I think best in an artistic way.

But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art.

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.

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.

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 can't be.

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.

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.

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

There are so many movies and it's a waste of time and a waste of money. Basically, movies are made with what it costs the external debt of all Africa.