I become a bit of a blank page in public. And that’s precisely why I like acting.
CHRISTIAN BALEWell, it’s embarrassing to be a star.
More Christian Bale Quotes
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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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You have to treat yourself like a mushroom to some degree, in order to keep on discovering things.
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No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn’t manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should’ve done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day?
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I swear, the bigger your muscles get, the duller you are. You become fascinated with carbs and protein and ripped abs and things that are just not interesting at all.
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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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In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We’re in love with each other beyond belief.
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I have a fear of being boring.
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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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An actor should never be larger than the film he’s in.
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I’ll find myself having dinner with people and someone will mention something and I will say I was in that situation once. Then I’ll say, forget it, it was a scene I was in. That can get to be quite confusing.
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Putting on weight is easy all the way through. But after the first couple of weeks, the novelty wears off very quickly, and your body is groaning and starting to really shout at you, saying, ‘Why? Why? Why? Why are you doing this?’
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After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.
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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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My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.
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We’re all conning ourselves, one way or another, just to get through life.
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Well, it’s embarrassing to be a star.
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People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy and I can’t do that as Bruce Wayne. As a man I’m flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed, but as a symbol, as a symbol I can be incorruptible. I can be everlasting.
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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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Whatever you do, do it completely. Don’t do it half-arsed. Do it more than anybody else would.
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In honesty, there are probably a lot of stories that can be told with Batman. I like the idea of him growing older and he can’t quite do it as much anymore.
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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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It’s got to do with putting yourself in other people’s shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.
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A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.
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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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I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do.
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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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