I don’t personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.
CHRISTIAN BALEI seek the means to fight injustice. To turn fear against those who prey on the fearful.
More Christian Bale Quotes
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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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Sometimes the truth isn’t good enough. Sometimes people have got to have their faith rewarded.
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There’s nothing like boxing for getting you in shape.
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If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn’t be so adored in the slightest.
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I think it’s important when you’re acting to be as relaxed as possible even if you’re doing something intense. You’re basically in a state of dynamic relaxation.
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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 feel like I’m pretty good but I don’t like to toot my own horn, you know. I want to let the work speak for itself and kind of move on to the next thing.
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I don’t get it when you get so much openness about the way movies are made, and the special effects and the behind-the-scenes stuff and all of that. I can’t help but feel like this reduces it a little bit.
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All 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.
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Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. As an actor, you’re giving it up, you’re at the mercy of so many other people.
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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.
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I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make.
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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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I always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people’s favorite movies. And that’s what I like so much, is that you never know. Something intrigues somebody and means nothing to somebody else.
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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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