I never, in any city I’ve ever been in, never remember the names of streets. The longest place I ever lived in was for five years and I didn’t know the name of the next street over.
CHRISTIAN BALEAll of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You’ve said that you will commit to this part, and I just can’t live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can.
More Christian Bale Quotes
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The only thing that I’m obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure.
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I don’t personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.
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All I’ve ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of crosswords that I didn’t finish and maybe some old bicycle that I found lying around on set.
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But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn’t mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did actually go from 121 right back up to 180, which is way too fast obviously. And that resulted in some doctors visits to get things sorted out.
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I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It’s wonderful, isn’t it?
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Planning a career, I always find a tricky thing, because I don’t have much of a plan, really.
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I like being responsible for myself.
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If you’re doing your job properly, you take the risk of feeling slightly foolish and delve in and bring out the emotions.
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I find what I do for a living really funny. I mean, acting is kind of a hilarious thing for a grown man to call a job.
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You have to treat yourself like a mushroom to some degree, in order to keep on discovering things.
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It’s the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.
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Essentially, I’m untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I’m going to be playing.
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And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.
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It’s very easy to leave when things go wrong, but to stick around and to basically give life to a town because of everything that it gave you generation after generation after generation, that to me is what defines a true American.
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I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do.
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Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don’t intentionally go for dark.
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Nuclear apocalypse-who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops.
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What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There’s got to be something a little bit loose in there.
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It’s about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along.
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It’s tough to make a good movie. I think the bigger the movies are, the worse they are. A lot of big movies make a lot of money and you kind of forget about what they are and they don’t really make you think.
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I become a bit of a blank page in public. And that’s precisely why I like acting.
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I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of that. And I like the commitment that is needed for that.
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I seek the means to fight injustice. To turn fear against those who prey on the fearful.
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It’s about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That’s partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone does unless they pursue roles that are very different from what they’ve done before.
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I have a fear of being boring.
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The interesting thing about a movie is the movie.
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