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.
CHRISTIAN BALEAfter the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.
More Christian Bale Quotes
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I would have been very happy just cruising around and enjoying the unexpected. I’ve never been ambitious.
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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 have a fear of being boring.
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My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.
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I never want to feel that I’m playing it safe.
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I’ve had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I’m trivializing them by using them for a scene in a movie. I don’t want to do that. It just makes me feel kind of dirty for having done that.
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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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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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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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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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Whatever you do, do it completely. Don’t do it half-arsed. Do it more than anybody else would.
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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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It’s not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.
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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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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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