Javier Bardem Quotes

I just fight in my movies, never in real life.

I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.

My mother was watching on television and she doesn't want me to hurt anyone.

Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.

When I use violence in a movie, it's just to express the power, the impact of it.

Fighting is not something you can just turn off.

You have to be able to decide, 'Well no, I'm not going to be violent, I'm going to suppress that impulse; I'm not going to be greedy.' Unless you're able to do that you're stuck with adversarial politics that leads nowhere and creates ever greater violence.

There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.

I'm a strong person, but I'd never resort to violence.

I don't fight people for fun.

Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.

You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em.

Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.

Violence isn't really my thing.

I wouldn't be honest if I told you that in some moment of my life I had a lot of rage - probably hate - I'm not sure of hate, but rage. But you know what happens is that then you realize you cannot do to others what you think nobody has to do to anybody. Life is important for me and not any kind of life, quality too of life.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.

One should not evoke violence by acting fearful.

Before boxing, I was this angry kid ready to fight if someone said, 'Hello.'

A sword in hand is a sure sign of a violent mind; but one does not become non-violent merely by throwing the sword away.

I'm not a violent person, but I'm a capable person. I'm never looking for a fight. But I'm always ready for one.

I don't think about fights that didn't happen.

When I was younger, I was an aggressive fighter but I'm growing into someone who understands we don't have to answer things with violence.

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.