If you’re doing your job properly, you take the risk of feeling slightly foolish and delve in and bring out the emotions.
CHRISTIAN BALEI 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.
More Christian Bale Quotes
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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 never want to feel that I’m playing it safe.
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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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It was a great honor to be called a mo-fo by Sam Jackson.
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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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I would have been very happy just cruising around and enjoying the unexpected. I’ve never been ambitious.
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Working out is incredibly boring. I swear it’s true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer brain cells you have.
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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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I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It’s wonderful, isn’t it?
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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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The only thing I would unequivocally say is that I have never had any interest in romantic comedy I just couldn’t do it. I think I’d be terrible.
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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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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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Putting on weight is easy all the way through. But after the first couple of weeks, the novelty wears off very quickly, and your body is groaning and starting to really shout at you, saying, ‘Why? Why? Why? Why are you doing this?’
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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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My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.
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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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Being misunderstood is not a bad thing as an actor. I know the truth.
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Essentially, 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.
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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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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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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’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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I become a bit of a blank page in public. And that’s precisely why I like acting.
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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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