It’s not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.
CHRISTIAN BALEEssentially, 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.
More Christian Bale Quotes
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What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There’s got to be something a little bit loose in there.
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It’s about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along.
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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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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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Planning a career, I always find a tricky thing, because I don’t have much of a plan, really.
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I never want to feel that I’m playing it safe.
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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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Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don’t intentionally go for dark.
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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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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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The art of survival is a story that never ends.
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I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of that. And I like the commitment that is needed for that.
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I’d love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I’m in and get a higher profile because of that. I like to think that as long as you continue choosing diverse roles, you can avoid becoming predictable.
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People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy and I can’t do that as Bruce Wayne. As a man I’m flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed, but as a symbol, as a symbol I can be incorruptible. I can be everlasting.
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