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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.

Christian Bale

The interesting thing about a movie is the movie.
CHRISTIAN BALE

Interesting Movie
The only thing that I’m obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure.
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Happiness Myself Obsession Sleep
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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Attitude End Fake Live People Theory Yourself
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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Different Myself Pursue Role Wait
I never want to feel that I’m playing it safe.
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Feeling Myself Play Safety
I think it’s important when you’re acting to be as relaxed as possible even if you’re doing something intense. You’re basically in a state of dynamic relaxation.
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Act Important Intense Relax State Thinking
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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Decision Kind Loose Man Run
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
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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Myself Occasion Pretend Respect Understand
In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We’re in love with each other beyond belief.
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Beautiful Belief Beyond Life Love Marriage Myself Relationship Wife
It’s about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along.
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Future Pursue See Wait
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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Act Call Finding Funny Hilarious Job Live Man
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
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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Confusion Myself People Quite Situation
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.
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Certain Movie Myself Stability Start Trick
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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Experience Feeling Kind Life Movie Myself Painful
A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.
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Attention Fade Myself Notice People
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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Definition Easy Generation Leaving Myself True Wrong
Well, it’s embarrassing to be a star.
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Embarrassment Stardom
I have a fear of being boring.
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Boredom Fear Myself
Research can be interesting, but it can be pointless as well. The realities of making a movie often are not conducive with that. I’m not knocking it. I love doing research myself, but I admit it doesn’t always add to the performance.
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Admit Movie Myself Point Reality Research
I like being responsible for myself.
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Accountable Myself Responsibility
I don’t personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.
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Experience Life Myself Personal Play Scene
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
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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Actor Growth List Pretend Yourself
If you’re doing your job properly, you take the risk of feeling slightly foolish and delve in and bring out the emotions.
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Emotion Feeling Job Risk Yourself
In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they’ll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.
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Comedy Doubt Leadership Myself Romance Romantic

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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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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