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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.

Christian Bale

I want to do good work. I want the opportunity to work with good people, and the only way I’m gonna do that is to commit 110% – you get out what you put in.
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Commitment Goodness People Work Yourself
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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Admire Life Myself Reality
Well, it’s embarrassing to be a star.
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Embarrassment Stardom
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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Effect Help Movie Myself Open Reduce Scene
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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Imagination Myself Person Shoes Training Try
And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.
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Boredom Inheritance Myself Parents Worst Yourself
We’re all conning ourselves, one way or another, just to get through life.
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Direction Life Ourselves Way
An actor should never be larger than the film he’s in.
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Actor Big Himself Movie
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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Growth Honesty Ideas Myself Old Quite Story
The art of survival is a story that never ends.
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Art End Story Survive
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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Character Myself Nature Play Similarity Thinking
It’s not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.
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Definition Myself Work
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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Character Different Jump Man Ourselves Person Start
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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Kind Love Machine Mood Movie Myself Try
As an actor, I don’t feel like it’s necessary to watch a great deal of films. In fact, I think it can lead to imitation and unhealthy competition, which just isn’t needed.
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Competition Deal Feeling Greatness Myself Necessary Watch
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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Day Disappointment Each Other Feeling Manage Myself Occasion

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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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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