I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don’t rely on some bag of acting tricks I’ve amassed over the years.
CHRISTIAN BALEThe art of survival is a story that never ends.
More Christian Bale Quotes
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We’re all conning ourselves, one way or another, just to get through life.
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It was a great honor to be called a mo-fo by Sam Jackson.
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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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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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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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I don’t personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.
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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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An actor should never be larger than the film he’s in.
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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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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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Whatever you do, do it completely. Don’t do it half-arsed. Do it more than anybody else would.
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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 the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.
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Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don’t intentionally go for dark.
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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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