I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.
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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Working out is incredibly boring. I swear it’s true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer brain cells you have.
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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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I don’t personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.
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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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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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All I’ve ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of crosswords that I didn’t finish and maybe some old bicycle that I found lying around on set.
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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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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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The art of survival is a story that never ends.
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There’s nothing like boxing for getting you in shape.
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An actor should never be larger than the film he’s in.
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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 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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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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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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