Javier Bardem Quotes

To be honest, if people thought my performance in 'The Office' was the same as my performance in 'The Hobbit,' it would tell me everything I needed to know about what they know about acting.

We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess.

For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.

Any decent actor knows you can't judge the character you're playing.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.

You don't want to be the guy whose back's to the camera in the emotional part of the movie. So, you have to be aware of the camera movement and what the camera's doing.

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.

My job when I'm acting in a movie is very limited to playing a role. I'm not evaluating somebody. I'm only evaluating them insofar as they're interacting with me, but I'm not evaluating their skill set and I don't watch the movies, so I'm not aware of the way they're putting things together.

I think being on a film set for such a long time made me a technical actor without realizing it.

My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.

If I am looking at my work as an actor after having directed, I'm able to look at things in a much more technical way. There's no question about that.

I've always felt that almost every part I've played has been a character part. I mean, I look at it that way. I can't help how I look or how I seem to people.

I really think that studying theater early on really helped me to be able to identify how to get into a character, because it's such a mysterious thing. Learning objective acting in the beginning of my career was the best thing I could have ever done.

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I'm a member of the crew, like the best boy, the electrician. What I'm good at is making eyes at the camera.

As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

It's an actor's job to play all the human conditions - light, dark, and medium.

The best way to learn how to work with actors is to have had experience of trying to act yourself - it will teach you humility if nothing else.

You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take.

Before shooting, I prepare with the actors much more like it's a theater play than a movie. Apparently, that way of working is very unusual.

Directing myself definitely made me a better actor. And, you know, I think actors have the best track record when they turn to directing. Writers, too. I knew how to direct actors because I've been there and I know what I like.

When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.