After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.
CHRISTIAN BALEI never, in any city I’ve ever been in, never remember the names of streets. The longest place I ever lived in was for five years and I didn’t know the name of the next street over.
More Christian Bale Quotes
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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 would have been very happy just cruising around and enjoying the unexpected. I’ve never been ambitious.
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It’s not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.
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I’m English. Our dentistry is not world famous. But I made sure I got moldings of my old teeth beforehand because I miss them.
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It’s about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along.
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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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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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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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Planning a career, I always find a tricky thing, because I don’t have much of a plan, really.
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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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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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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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The art of survival is a story that never ends.
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I only sound intelligent when there’s a good script writer around.
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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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