The art of survival is a story that never ends.
CHRISTIAN BALEI 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.
More Christian Bale Quotes
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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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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.
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There are occasions when I’ve pretended to be in a firefight, and then there are people who have really been in a firefight. Clearly it’s absolutely ridiculous, and even disrespectful, to suggest that I understand what that is.
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I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do.
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It’s about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along.
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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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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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It’s got to do with putting yourself in other people’s shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.
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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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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 become a bit of a blank page in public. And that’s precisely why I like acting.
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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’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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The interesting thing about a movie is the movie.
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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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