Happy Birthday: Javier Bardem

Javier Bardem

Born: March 1, 1969 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain

Married to: Penélope Cruz (July 2010 – present) (2 children)

I’m getting more comfortable now, but it will never get to the point as if you are doing it in your own language. When I say, “I love you” or “I hate you” in Spanish, many things come to my mind, aspects of my own life. When I say it in English, I don’t have the memories.

[on his character of Chigurh in No Country for Old Men (2007)] All the work I usually do: imagining the past, the circumstances of the character in this case I didn’t do it. We all saw him as a force of nature, the embodiment of violence.

[on working with Alejandro Amenábar again] I wish I could work with him again. He’s so secret. He doesn’t even…