“What does my performance have to do with Russell Crowe's? Nothing. If ...” — Javier Bardem Quote

“What does my performance have to do with Russell Crowe's? Nothing. If I play Gladiator and we all play Gladiator with Ridley Scott in the same amount of time, maybe we have a chance to see who did it best.”

“We live in the moment now where this whole movie business is crazy.”

“My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully.”

“We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.”

“And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'”

“I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.”

“When I was 13, I was in my tent at Girl Scout camp, trying to change out of my bathing suit and talking at the same time. I fell out of the tent in front of everyone with my bathing suit around my ankles. I was humiliated - but no amount of humiliation has ever seemed to stop me.”

“I have always had a tremendous amount of energy and any band I was ever in from the age of fourteen, I would always be the one who would describe the future and vibe everyone up.”

“There is a tremendous amount of oil in Iraq and it's still very, very cheap due to all the political uncertainty. So if you want to be a serious oil investor, I would say get yourself to Iraq in person and look around to find great opportunities.”

“Eddie and I are overwhelmed by the amount of lovely well wishes. We are blessed and.... I'm Mrs. Cibrian!”

“I sometimes can't be bothered, dare I say, to spend a copious amount of time on my hair and my face before I go out into the public eye.”