Javier Bardem Quotes

When you work with someone who is not insecure, that makes you confident.

It doesn't matter to me who I'm playing with. I think I'm going to make anybody better.

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

Actually, competitiveness was never part of our upbringing.

There are so many great things about this business. Almost everybody is on the same team. It is all for one-friendly competitiveness. No one is out to hurt anyone.

The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.

You've got to have confidence and trust in your cast. You have to have confidence and trust in your director, in your editor. It's such a team effort; I really think you have to pull yourself out of it and just trust. I think the number one thing you can do is just trust everyone around you.

I don't see any of my colleagues as rivals. I don't think our generation needs to do that. We are a chilled out lot, and we should all be happy.

If you want to reach the top, don't run over others. Likely, the only way you'll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

I think my confidence has developed over the years in terms of the speed at which I will reveal how collaborative I want to be.

We care for each other and care about our family, and we are both working towards the same goal.

I've got great relationships with all of my teammates regardless of who it is.

When you have a fruitful relationship with someone, and you've both chosen to work together, then it can spawn really good things.

Life is not about competition.

Everyone fights for everyone else. If someone has a bad day, then the others are there for him. And if a player makes a mistake, then the others can compensate for that. Those sorts of things are crucial at this level, and it's really important that we perform as a unit.

I've never had hard feelings with any of my teammates who decided to leave or felt like it was best to leave.

Individually, yeah, I want to be the best version of me. But I want to make everyone else feel comfortable on the floor where they can go out there and they are just playing their game. That's when I'm the happiest, when every guy on the floor is just being that.

It's nice that people are keen to work with me.

I think you function much better when you trust people and when you've got a sort of relationship where you can develop ideas within a framework.

I never want to make the quarterback feel like I'm being a distraction or I've got any negativity toward him.

I've always believed the better the players I'm surrounded by, the better I am. I've never tried to think of myself as anything different. I know who I am as a basketball player and I'm never going to try to pretend that I'm more or less, but definitely not more.

What is ... important is that we - number one: Learn to live with each other. Number two: try to bring out the best in each other.

Women do well in their thirties. They put their bags down and say, 'This is who I am - like it or lump it.' There is a more relaxed quality, which I like.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there's enough room for all of us to succeed.

I don't feel competitive.