I don’t think I’m like any of the characters I’ve played. They’re all really far from who I am.
CHRISTIAN BALEI would have been very happy just cruising around and enjoying the unexpected. I’ve never been ambitious.
More Christian Bale Quotes
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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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Planning a career, I always find a tricky thing, because I don’t have much of a plan, really.
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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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I have a fear of being boring.
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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.
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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.
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I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn’t have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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