I don’t personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.
CHRISTIAN BALEIn everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We’re in love with each other beyond belief.
More Christian Bale Quotes
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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.
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Whatever you do, do it completely. Don’t do it half-arsed. Do it more than anybody else would.
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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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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.
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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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I never want to feel that I’m playing it safe.
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We’re all conning ourselves, one way or another, just to get through life.
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I seek the means to fight injustice. To turn fear against those who prey on the fearful.
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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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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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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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I become a bit of a blank page in public. And that’s precisely why I like acting.
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Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don’t intentionally go for dark.
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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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It’s about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That’s partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone does unless they pursue roles that are very different from what they’ve done before.
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