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I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don’t rely on some bag of acting tricks I’ve amassed over the years.

Christian Bale

I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make.
CHRISTIAN BALE

Confusion Image Kind Movie Myself People
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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Burden Expectation Kind Modesty Movie Myself Success
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.
CHRISTIAN BALE

Goodness Movie Myself Thinking Tough Worst
If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn’t be so adored in the slightest.
CHRISTIAN BALE

Admire Life Myself Reality
There are occasions when I’ve pretended to be in a firefight, and then there are people who have really been in a firefight. Clearly it’s absolutely ridiculous, and even disrespectful, to suggest that I understand what that is.
CHRISTIAN BALE

Myself Occasion Pretend Respect Understand
I don’t personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.
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Experience Life Myself Personal Play Scene
I only sound intelligent when there’s a good script writer around.
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Around Intelligence Scripture Sound Writing
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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Audience Feeling Fools Pretty Worth
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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Emotion Feeling Job Risk Yourself
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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Destroy Drama Example Ignorance Myself People Symbol
An actor should never be larger than the film he’s in.
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Actor Big Himself Movie
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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Actor Give Up Art Compromise Mercy People Proud Yourself
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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Different Myself Pursue Role Wait
Planning a career, I always find a tricky thing, because I don’t have much of a plan, really.
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Career Myself Planning Trick
But I learned that there’s a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there’s not much else that can really get to ya.
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Built Character Happiness Learning Myself
It was a great honor to be called a mo-fo by Sam Jackson.
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Greatness Honor Name Respect

I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don’t rely on some bag of acting tricks I’ve amassed over the years.

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I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don’t rely on some bag of acting tricks I’ve amassed over the years.

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