Javier Bardem Quotes

In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder.

In show business, you get chewed up and spit out.

It's a winner-take-all world.

Playing to a stadium is not for everyone because you are essentially gambling, big-time. You have to go all in on production. You can't hold back.

I expect either total success or total failure. That's my lot in life.

There's no second-place winners in this league.

It's a dog eat dog world, and Mr. Perfect is a Milk Bone.

If you're not first, you're last.

I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.

Public life has become so gladiatorial. Every day, another reputation bites the dust.

If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.

I hit big or I miss big.

We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.

The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.

In Washington, if you don't win, you lose. If you don't survive, you die. If you don't prosper, you fail.

It is not enough that I succeed. Everyone else must fail.

The television and film business has never really been kind or compassionate, in general.

Hollywood is like a piranha. They don't give you breathing room. You don't have time to let your career breathe.

In some ways, trying to win cups is more fraught than trying to win the league, as one really bad night and everything comes crashing down.

I've always thought we've done our best work when everything is on the line.

You can't just live cautiously, I think, when you're in a knockout game.

Bollywood is a tough place to be in and survival isn't easy.

It is a do-or-die battle every time we play India.

There is no such thing as 'social gambling.' Either you are there to cut the other bloke's heart out and eat it -- or you're a sucker. If you don't like this choice -- don't gamble.

When you take high risks, the rewards are higher. So sometimes I'll gamble just to see what happens. If it doesn't work, I know I can't do that.