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.
CHRISTIAN BALEI 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.
More Christian Bale Quotes
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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 only sound intelligent when there’s a good script writer around.
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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.
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Well, it’s embarrassing to be a star.
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It’s about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along.
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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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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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Sometimes the truth isn’t good enough. Sometimes people have got to have their faith rewarded.
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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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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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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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I seek the means to fight injustice. To turn fear against those who prey on the fearful.
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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 like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It’s wonderful, isn’t it?
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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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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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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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No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn’t manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should’ve done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day?
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Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don’t intentionally go for dark.
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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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I have a fear of being boring.
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Putting on weight is easy all the way through. But after the first couple of weeks, the novelty wears off very quickly, and your body is groaning and starting to really shout at you, saying, ‘Why? Why? Why? Why are you doing this?’
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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 swear, the bigger your muscles get, the duller you are. You become fascinated with carbs and protein and ripped abs and things that are just not interesting at all.
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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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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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