It’s very easy to leave when things go wrong, but to stick around and to basically give life to a town because of everything that it gave you generation after generation after generation, that to me is what defines a true American.
CHRISTIAN BALEResearch 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.
More Christian Bale Quotes
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It was a great honor to be called a mo-fo by Sam Jackson.
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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 personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.
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You’ll hunt me. You’ll condemn me. Set the dogs on me. Because that’s what needs to happen. Because sometimes truth isn’t good enough. Sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded.
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The art of survival is a story that never ends.
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It’s not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.
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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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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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I seek the means to fight injustice. To turn fear against those who prey on the fearful.
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I never, in any city I’ve ever been in, never remember the names of streets. The longest place I ever lived in was for five years and I didn’t know the name of the next street over.
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I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of that. And I like the commitment that is needed for that.
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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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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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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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Planning a career, I always find a tricky thing, because I don’t have much of a plan, really.
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