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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.

Christian Bale

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.
CHRISTIAN BALE

Kind Love Machine Mood Movie Myself Try
Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don’t intentionally go for dark.
CHRISTIAN BALE

Attraction Darkness Intention Misery Myself
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.
CHRISTIAN BALE

Act Call Finding Funny Hilarious Job Live Man
I seek the means to fight injustice. To turn fear against those who prey on the fearful.
CHRISTIAN BALE

Fear Fight Injustice Prey Seek
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.
CHRISTIAN BALE

Confusion Myself People Quite Situation
I feel like I’m pretty good but I don’t like to toot my own horn, you know. I want to let the work speak for itself and kind of move on to the next thing.
CHRISTIAN BALE

Feeling Goodness Kind Myself Work
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.
CHRISTIAN BALE

Decision Kind Loose Man Run
After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.
CHRISTIAN BALE

Burden Expectation Kind Modesty Movie Myself Success
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.
CHRISTIAN BALE

Deserve Dog Enough Faith Hunt Need People Reward Time Truth
You have to treat yourself like a mushroom to some degree, in order to keep on discovering things.
CHRISTIAN BALE

Degree Discover Order Treat Yourself
Being misunderstood is not a bad thing as an actor. I know the truth.
CHRISTIAN BALE

Actor Bad Truth Understand Yourself
I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don’t rely on some bag of acting tricks I’ve amassed over the years.
CHRISTIAN BALE

Certain Movie Myself Stability Start Trick
There’s nothing like boxing for getting you in shape.
CHRISTIAN BALE

Body Exercise Shape Yourself
We’re all conning ourselves, one way or another, just to get through life.
CHRISTIAN BALE

Direction Life Ourselves Way
An actor should never be larger than the film he’s in.
CHRISTIAN BALE

Actor Big Himself Movie
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.
CHRISTIAN BALE

Boredom Inheritance Myself Parents Worst Yourself

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