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.
CHRISTIAN BALEIf you’re doing your job properly, you take the risk of feeling slightly foolish and delve in and bring out the emotions.
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My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.
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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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Being misunderstood is not a bad thing as an actor. I know the truth.
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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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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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I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do.
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I never want to feel that I’m playing it safe.
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I like being responsible for myself.
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If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn’t be so adored in the slightest.
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We were incredibly fortunate to get to make three Batman films. That’s enough. Let’s not get greedy. It’s a torch that should be handed from one actor to another. So I enjoy looking forward to what somebody else will come up with.
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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’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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I would have been very happy just cruising around and enjoying the unexpected. I’ve never been ambitious.
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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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I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make.
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