We’re all conning ourselves, one way or another, just to get through life.
CHRISTIAN BALEI don’t personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.
More Christian Bale Quotes
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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’m English. Our dentistry is not world famous. But I made sure I got moldings of my old teeth beforehand because I miss them.
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It was a great honor to be called a mo-fo by Sam Jackson.
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I don’t think I’m like any of the characters I’ve played. They’re all really far from who I am.
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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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An actor should never be larger than the film he’s in.
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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.
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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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I don’t get it when you get so much openness about the way movies are made, and the special effects and the behind-the-scenes stuff and all of that. I can’t help but feel like this reduces it a little bit.
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It’s about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along.
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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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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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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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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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Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don’t intentionally go for dark.
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