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If you’re doing your job properly, you take the risk of feeling slightly foolish and delve in and bring out the emotions.

Christian Bale

Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don’t intentionally go for dark.
CHRISTIAN BALE

Attraction Darkness Intention Misery Myself
The only thing that I’m obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure.
CHRISTIAN BALE

Happiness Myself Obsession Sleep
Working out is incredibly boring. I swear it’s true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer brain cells you have.
CHRISTIAN BALE

Body Boredom Brain Exercise Work Yourself
As an actor, I don’t feel like it’s necessary to watch a great deal of films. In fact, I think it can lead to imitation and unhealthy competition, which just isn’t needed.
CHRISTIAN BALE

Competition Deal Feeling Greatness Myself Necessary Watch
All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You’ve said that you will commit to this part, and I just can’t live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can.
CHRISTIAN BALE

Commitment Live Muscle Myself Obligation Reality Time
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
I become a bit of a blank page in public. And that’s precisely why I like acting.
CHRISTIAN BALE

Act Blank Myself Nature Page
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

Experience Feeling Kind Life Movie Myself Painful
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.
CHRISTIAN BALE

Commitment Enjoyment Insanity Myself Need People Serious
Being misunderstood is not a bad thing as an actor. I know the truth.
CHRISTIAN BALE

Actor Bad Truth Understand Yourself
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
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
Whatever you do, do it completely. Don’t do it half-arsed. Do it more than anybody else would.
CHRISTIAN BALE

Dedication Effort Hard Work Inspirational Yourself
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.
CHRISTIAN BALE

Attention Fade Myself Notice People
Research can be interesting, but it can be pointless as well. The realities of making a movie often are not conducive with that. I’m not knocking it. I love doing research myself, but I admit it doesn’t always add to the performance.
CHRISTIAN BALE

Admit Movie Myself Point Reality Research
I don’t personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.
CHRISTIAN BALE

Experience Life Myself Personal Play Scene

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