I never want to feel that I’m playing it safe.
CHRISTIAN BALEI swear, the bigger your muscles get, the duller you are. You become fascinated with carbs and protein and ripped abs and things that are just not interesting at all.
More Christian Bale Quotes
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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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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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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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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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We’re all conning ourselves, one way or another, just to get through life.
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It’s about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along.
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The interesting thing about a movie is the movie.
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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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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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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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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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I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.
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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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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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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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