Quotes by Gael Garcia Bernal - Page 2

I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Jobs
Kids
Normal
School
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Talking about food is like talking about your dreams. Everyone has something to say. We all have to eat, it's just what we eat which differs. Some people eat for fuel and I feel bad for them.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Dream
Fuel
People
Talking
Your Dreams
Differs
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I've never cared for the idea of a career path, or where a film might 'take me.' My love is for acting not money, so I only take on roles that I find challenging, in stories I find interesting.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Career Path
Love Is
Path
Cared
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The world of classical music is so fascinating. It's a world that encompasses people from everywhere and erases the basic restraints of nationality; everyone is united by this common language of music.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Classical Music
Common Language
Fascinating
Nationality
Music World People
Classical
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Little remnants from everywhere I've been are scattered around my home. I collect rocks in a weird way, with stones from around the world as mementos. I've also got three haranas, which are little guitars.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Rocks
Stones
Collect
Guitars
Scattered
Weird Way
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Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real democracy that's constructed on a day-to-day basis. That's my hopeful perspective on it.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Cynical
Day To Day
Electoral Process
Giving
Hopeful
Importance
Perspective
Real
Basis
Constructed
Electoral
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There's no such thing as a specific authenticity to what Mexico is, because Mexico is incredibly complex and varied, and the food is completely different if you travel 50 kilometers. It just changes all the time.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Authenticity
Mexico
Varied
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
History
Certain
Discourse
Genesis
Genocide
Hate
Insight
Little Bit
Sparks
Little
Where Hate People
Bit
Been
Blaming
Doing
How
Times
Group
How Many Times
Where
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Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Aspect
Becoming
Complexity
Day To Day
Democracy
Electoral Process
Publicity
Symbols
Constructed
Electoral
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People still say to me, 'What, you still live in Mexico?' I don't have to go to the United States simply to find work, and I don't have to stop what I'm doing. I mean, which Hollywood film beats 'The Motorcycle Diaries?'
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Beats
Diaries
Film
Hollywood
Mexico
Motorcycle
States
United States
Work Me People
Work Me Live
Simply
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Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Country
Play
Style
Vision
Encompass
Subject
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It's not easy to act, but to direct to act. It goes form one place to the next. It's not heading for the punchline, and also it's not about scoring goals. It's about passing the ball, and the goals will come by themselves.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Balls
Direct
Goal
Next
Passing
Heading
Scoring
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I love rehearsals and I love creating a character, sticking with it until you have something to tell. It's always different though. Sometimes a director will tell you from day one what they want. Then you throw in your idea.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Character
Creating
Ideas
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Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Country
Encounters
Generalization
Mean
Territory
Texas
Completed
Draw
Mixed
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I think the best thing I can say about it - and I think the best thing you can say about anything, really - is that 'The Motorcycle Diaries' made me feel like my home was bigger; it made me feel at home anywhere in Latin America.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Bigger
Diaries
Latin
Latin America
Motorcycle
Best Home Me
Anywhere
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Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Believe
Latin
Latin America
Mean
Waste
Films
Least
Pays
Rent
Waste Of Time
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In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
America
Latin
Latin America
Limitation
Speak English
Favor
Wanting
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I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any other place. England is an island, there's a lot of salt in the air and in the water. I think that has something to do with it.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Apples
Country
England
Islands
Salt
Taste
Thinking
Food Water Will
Any Other Place
Dictates
Island
Grown
Unlike
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When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Catalyst
Catalyst For Change
Cinema
Football
Football Match
Important Things
Spiritual
Spiritual Experience
Witness
Life Change Good
Life Change Experience
Incredibly
Match
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A boxing workout is the heaviest thing, but it's the best. The worst part is that boxing gyms are the smelliest things in the universe. You have to lie down on the floor, where everyone has been sweating and spitting, and do 1,000 situps and push-ups.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Boxing
Lying
Push Ups
Sweating
Universe
Workout
Worst
Lie
Floor
Heaviest
Spitting
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'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Battered
Buying
Costumes
Diaries
Motorcycle
Real Life
Shirts
Life Best Yourself
Life Best Father
Handed
Jacket
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HeyHey is my favourite app. It's like Instagram but for sound recordings, with little soundbites from people's days. We spend far too much time looking down at our phones, so it's nice to have your head up while you listen to what other people have uploaded.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Favourite
Phones
Time Your People
App
Time Looking People
Recordings
Too Much Time
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Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by the sea on a basic diet - tomatoes, chillis, peppers of every size and rice, which is a Mexican staple. The Pacific coast has a huge array of seafood.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Diet
Huge
Mexican
Pacific
People
Peppers
Rice
Sea
Size
Thinking
Tomatoes
Array
Basic
Brought
Dialects
Far
Staple
Varied
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The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Classical Music
Dedicated
Funding
Hiring
Rich
Rich People
Type
Began
Classical
Musicians
Owning
Private
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Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Decision
Letting Go
Sleep
Strong
Life Alone Best
Letting
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I asked the producers when I was doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' if they could give me a VHS recording of the film that I could show to my family, because in Mexico and Latin America, when you do a film, you don't expect anybody to see it, especially not in the cinema.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
America
Cinema
Give Me
Giving
Latin
Latin America
Mama
Mexico
Producers
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In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Disease
Drama
Latin
Latin American
Mexico
Skip
Tropical
Time Great Me
Believed
Drama School
Solution
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In general, I hate films that are overtly either very masculine or very feminine, you know? The same way that I don't like a war movie about soldiers smashing people's heads. But a chick flick I like would be Cassavetes' movies. 'A Woman Under the Influence,' 'Husbands.'
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Feminine
Masculine
Smashing
Chick
Flick
Heads
Husbands
Soldiers
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I was asked to go to Cannes to present Amores Perros. And little did I know that this film would be huge. I saw it for the first time in Cannes, and it was the first time I'd seen myself on such a big screen. And it had a huge impact on me - it was the strangest feeling.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Big Screen
Cannes
Feelings
Impact
Would Be
Time Myself Me
Huge Impact
Screen
Strangest
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I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like 'The Wire.' It's more about the state of things; it's not about the narrative of a person.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Aspect
Following
Narrative
Opera
Soap
Wire
Breaking
Breaking Bad
Context
Soap Opera
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Migration is as natural as breathing, as eating, as sleeping. It is part of life, part of nature. So we have to find a way of establishing a proper kind of scenario for modern migration to exist. And when I say 'we,' I mean the world. We need to find ways of making that migration not forced.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Nature
Breathing
Eating
Mean
Migration
Modern
Natural
Way
World
Life World Way
Need
Life Nature World
Life Nature Way
Find
Part
Exist
Establishing
Say
Forced
Making
Proper
Scenario
Sleeping
Ways
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I think in a sense seeing how films have changed me and seeing how fiction moves me more than facts in many ways, and I think that I can talk for many people that fiction moves us more than real life, it certainly helps us to set forth on this a journey of a utopia, which can never be achieved.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Moving
Real
Thinking
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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Aspect
Dirty
Disappointing
Election
Fooled
Mundane
Naughty
Thinking
Horrendous
Trivial
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In Mexico, audiences want to see a big discussion around a film - what we expect from Hollywood films worldwide is more of an entertaining show. 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' was a road movie and comedy, but it had a very strong political connotation that sparked a discussion in Mexico that is still going on.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Connotation
Discussion
Entertaining
Mama
Mexico
Worldwide
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My story about becoming an actor is a completely non-romantic one. I became an actor because my parents were actors, and it seemed like a very... I knew I was going to act all my life, but I didn't know that I was going to be a professional actor. I thought I was just going to work as an actor every now and then.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Now And Then
Life Work Parents
Life Work My Life
All My Life
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Los Cabos has been an amalgam of many cultures that have been coming here. There have been beautiful Jesuit missions for example, in many places around this area. The towns are incredible. But there is a very strong Mexicanized culture here that exists because people from different parts of Mexico have come to live here.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Mexico
Missions
Towns
Cultures
Different Parts
Exists
For Example
Los
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I'm never going to be able to leave Mexico, really. It would be foolish of me to do it. I would be wasting such a great opportunity that the accident of life, or destiny, gave me, which is to be Mexican. If we would make 'Lord of the Rings' analogies, I think Mexico City is Middle-earth. That's where the fight of humanity is.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Foolish
Great Opportunity
Mexican
Mexico
Mexico City
Rings
Accident
Analogy
Lord Of The Rings
Wasting
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It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We need to revive on many levels an illustrious desire to get to know the world, to learn another language, to understand and create empathy with people that live a few kilometers away from us. It's never late to do this.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Levels
Mexico
Revive
Illustrious
Many Levels
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There is something about the live performance of an orchestra that makes it very different to a film. With a film, you can rewrite it in a way with the material you have, and in rehearsals, you're really trying out different things. In an orchestra, you can't do that. They separate as soon as the performance factor comes into play.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Different Things
Live Performance
Orchestra
Factor
Rehearsals
Rewrite
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I think since I was in drama school, I wanted to direct in the theatre. When you are an actor, you just have to open your eyes and you start to learn a lot about how to survive on set and what's important and how to tell a story. Directing is really about putting yourself out there, to be slapped in a way. You know that in the kitchen, you're gonna get burned. It's very scary but very exciting as well. If you have something to say, you have nothing to lose and you probably learn from the experience.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Drama
Eye
School
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Shamefully, Mexico isn't a country that provides opportunities equally and democratically to everyone. Although there is a myth as well about that, because if you have something to tell, you will find a way to do it. You might get frustrated doing it but hey, that's the country we live in. I want the chance to live and experience the country that I come from. I keep struggling and fighting against these very seductive offers that require that I live somewhere else. It is a shame that it has to be like that. But you are young. If you don't have a family then there's no excuse. Try, at least.
Gael Garcia Bernal / Film Actor
Country
Fighting
Struggle
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