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I tend to think you’re fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.

Christian Bale

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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Imagination Myself Person Shoes Training Try
Nuclear apocalypse-who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops.
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Actor Growth List Pretend Yourself
You have to treat yourself like a mushroom to some degree, in order to keep on discovering things.
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Degree Discover Order Treat Yourself
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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Growth Honesty Ideas Myself Old Quite Story
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
I find what I do for a living really funny. I mean, acting is kind of a hilarious thing for a grown man to call a job.
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Act Call Finding Funny Hilarious Job Live Man
It’s not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.
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Definition Myself Work
In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they’ll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.
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Comedy Doubt Leadership Myself Romance Romantic
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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Decision Kind Loose Man Run
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
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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Experience Feeling Kind Life Movie Myself Painful
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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Boredom Inheritance Myself Parents Worst Yourself
I’m English. Our dentistry is not world famous. But I made sure I got moldings of my old teeth beforehand because I miss them.
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Destiny Famous Missing Myself World
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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Day Disappointment Each Other Feeling Manage Myself Occasion
There’s nothing like boxing for getting you in shape.
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Body Exercise Shape Yourself
I become a bit of a blank page in public. And that’s precisely why I like acting.
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Act Blank Myself Nature Page
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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Goodness Movie Myself Thinking Tough Worst
I never want to feel that I’m playing it safe.
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Feeling Myself Play Safety
The art of survival is a story that never ends.
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Art End Story Survive
But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn’t mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did actually go from 121 right back up to 180, which is way too fast obviously. And that resulted in some doctors visits to get things sorted out.
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Doctor Enjoyment Mindset Myself Obviously Sick Sort Visit
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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Effect Help Movie Myself Open Reduce Scene
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.
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Myself Occasion Pretend Respect Understand
Well, it’s embarrassing to be a star.
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Embarrassment Stardom
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
I have a fear of being boring.
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Boredom Fear Myself
Research can be interesting, but it can be pointless as well. The realities of making a movie often are not conducive with that. I’m not knocking it. I love doing research myself, but I admit it doesn’t always add to the performance.
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Admit Movie Myself Point Reality Research
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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