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.
CHRISTIAN BALEWe 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.
More Christian Bale Quotes
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It’s not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.
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It’s got to do with putting yourself in other people’s shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.
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I never want to feel that I’m playing it safe.
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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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An actor should never be larger than the film he’s in.
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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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The art of survival is a story that never ends.
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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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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 like being responsible for myself.
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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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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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Whatever you do, do it completely. Don’t do it half-arsed. Do it more than anybody else would.
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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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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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