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.
CHRISTIAN BALEMy dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.
More Christian Bale Quotes
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I never want to feel that I’m playing it safe.
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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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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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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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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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The art of survival is a story that never ends.
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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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I tend to think you’re fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.
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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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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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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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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 always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make.
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But I learned that there’s a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there’s not much else that can really get to ya.
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You have to treat yourself like a mushroom to some degree, in order to keep on discovering things.
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