Javier Bardem Quotes

When I look back at my life now, I'm not amazed by what I did at 16 to 21.

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

It could be seen as narcissistic to have your own museum, but for me, it's such a long time ago - I have perspective. That young man in the funny clothes - he's almost a stranger, so I can tell his story.

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

I look back at my twenties and see that I was much less confident.

There's something to be said about being able to be retrospective about a certain age as opposed to just in it.

I was young and naive. I didn't have the advice I have now and made mistakes. I didn't understand it was about attitude as well as ability.

As a kid, you don't know what's going on at the time. But once you get older, you start to realize it.

Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

We do things in our past that we need to do at the time.

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.

I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.

I realized I've spent all my life creating a past.

In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

After spending 460 days as a hostage, I did emerge a fundamentally changed person. But I think, like everyone does as they grow older and probably wiser, I can look back at my earlier life - my history, my mistakes, the joy I felt as a young woman traveling the world - with some objectivity and even some humor.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

I think when we shot 'Tokyo Drift' I was a little too young to really understand what made Han who he is, and then I got older, and you start to make a little bit of money, and you realize that money will never buy you happiness.