Essentially, I’m untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I’m going to be playing.
CHRISTIAN BALEIf you’re doing your job properly, you take the risk of feeling slightly foolish and delve in and bring out the emotions.
More Christian Bale Quotes
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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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If 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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You have to treat yourself like a mushroom to some degree, in order to keep on discovering things.
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I tend to think you’re fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.
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In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they’ll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.
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I always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people’s favorite movies. And that’s what I like so much, is that you never know. Something intrigues somebody and means nothing to somebody else.
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Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. As an actor, you’re giving it up, you’re at the mercy of so many other people.
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I only sound intelligent when there’s a good script writer around.
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In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We’re in love with each other beyond belief.
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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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It’s tough to make a good movie. I think the bigger the movies are, the worse they are. A lot of big movies make a lot of money and you kind of forget about what they are and they don’t really make you think.
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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 would have been very happy just cruising around and enjoying the unexpected. I’ve never been ambitious.
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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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Nuclear apocalypse-who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops.
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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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There’s nothing like boxing for getting you in shape.
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We’re all conning ourselves, one way or another, just to get through life.
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Planning a career, I always find a tricky thing, because I don’t have much of a plan, really.
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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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We are starting off with our own different characters and our own laws and everything, looking at Bruce Wayne and how he came to be the person that he was and how he comes to be this man that jumps around in the Bat suit.
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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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The art of survival is a story that never ends.
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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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In honesty, there are probably a lot of stories that can be told with Batman. I like the idea of him growing older and he can’t quite do it as much anymore.
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Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don’t intentionally go for dark.
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