Javier Bardem
Javier Bardem
Javier Ángel Encinas Bardemis a Spanish actor from the Canary Islands. He is best known for his role in the 2007 film No Country for Old Men, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor portraying the psychopathic assassin Anton Chigurh. He has also received critical acclaim for roles in films such as Jamón, jamón, Carne trémula, Boca a boca, Los Lunes al sol, Mar adentro, and Skyfall, for which he received both a BAFTA and a...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth1 March 1969
CityLas Palmas, Spain
CountrySpain
We live in the moment now where this whole movie business is crazy.
My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully.
Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time.
Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.
We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.
The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.
A part of being an actor is I people watch. I like to observe their behaviour, watch their reactions on the street and see how they talk to each other, and that's impossible when they are looking back at you. I used to enjoy taking the train and watching people in their own minds, struggling with themselves.
I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.
I look in the mirror and I don't see a sex symbol. I just see a guy who looks like he's been beaten with a baseball bat. I mean, is this the face of a sex symbol? They say that because I work in the movies.
I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts.
I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan.
An award doesn't necessarily make you a better actor.
The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier.
Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why dont you go to Africa and help people? But I cannot help people, because I am a hypochondriac.