It’s not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.
CHRISTIAN BALEWhat 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.
More Christian Bale Quotes
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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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Sometimes the truth isn’t good enough. Sometimes people have got to have their faith rewarded.
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Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don’t intentionally go for dark.
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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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You have to treat yourself like a mushroom to some degree, in order to keep on discovering things.
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I don’t think I’m like any of the characters I’ve played. They’re all really far from who I am.
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As an actor, I don’t feel like it’s necessary to watch a great deal of films. In fact, I think it can lead to imitation and unhealthy competition, which just isn’t needed.
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I’d love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I’m in and get a higher profile because of that. I like to think that as long as you continue choosing diverse roles, you can avoid becoming predictable.
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And being as I’m somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I get in the mood for all kinds of movies, and so I like to try each of them.
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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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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’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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I have a fear of being boring.
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The interesting thing about a movie is the movie.
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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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