Javier Bardem Quotes

One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a character and a story that never would have come out of your mind or heart.

What's nice about acting is that you're not just left with yourself all the time, but you get to see the world through so many different people's eyes.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

When you play a character, you get to see the world through their eyes. Whether it's a fictional world or a real world, you do get to see somebody else's point of view, whether he's a good guy or a bad guy.

It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.

A good novel is an out-of-self experience. It lifts you off the ground so that you have the sensation of flying. It says, 'Look at the world around you; learn from the people in these pages, neither quite me nor quite you, how life is lived in so many different ways.'

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look at the roles I've played, I'm kind of amazed at all the wonderful adventures I've had and the different things I've learned.

I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor I'm a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.

I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is a wonderful way of exploring that.

You can keep yourself alive. That's the magic of being an actor.

Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.

One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.

What I love about my work is that I'm forced to look through my character's eyes.

I'm coming from the notion that acting is an art. It is not a business. It is about building characters, not about selling personalities.

That's the wonderful thing about acting - you play a role. It's about humanity, rather than labeling.

The thing is, acting is supposed to be fun - maybe not always in a way that's lighthearted, but always in a way that's satisfying.

What I'm interested in as an actor is exploring universes that I have not come across before. It's interesting to me to be able to discover new things. I do like fantasies, and I like when film is inspiring and it puts creative ideas into the minds of the audience.

In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.

The fact that I like to make characters doesn't mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance.

My mother took me to a lot of operas and when I was eight I got the opportunity to be in one and I realized that transformation into these make-believe situations was possible. I decided that was essentially what I wanted to do with my life.

As a writer, it is always fun to imagine yourself in someone else's shoes.

One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.