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We’re all conning ourselves, one way or another, just to get through life.

Christian Bale

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.
CHRISTIAN BALE

Attitude End Fake Live People Theory Yourself
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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Live Myself Name Place Remember Street
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 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
Sometimes the truth isn’t good enough. Sometimes people have got to have their faith rewarded.
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Faith Goodness Reward Time Truth
I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.
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Attention Desire Fascination Man Myself Quiet
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
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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Attention Fade Myself Notice People
Whatever you do, do it completely. Don’t do it half-arsed. Do it more than anybody else would.
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Dedication Effort Hard Work Inspirational Yourself
The only thing I would unequivocally say is that I have never had any interest in romantic comedy I just couldn’t do it. I think I’d be terrible.
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Comedy Interest Myself Romantic Terrible Thinking
I would have been very happy just cruising around and enjoying the unexpected. I’ve never been ambitious.
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Ambitious Enjoyment Expectation Happiness Myself
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 want to do good work. I want the opportunity to work with good people, and the only way I’m gonna do that is to commit 110% – you get out what you put in.
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Commitment Goodness People Work Yourself
It’s got to do with putting yourself in other people’s shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.
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Act Empathy People Shoes True Understand
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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Confusion Myself People Quite Situation
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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