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.
CHRISTIAN BALEWhat 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.
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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The art of survival is a story that never ends.
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It’s the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.
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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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I only sound intelligent when there’s a good script writer around.
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All I’ve ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of crosswords that I didn’t finish and maybe some old bicycle that I found lying around on set.
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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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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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As an actor, I don’t feel like it’s necessary to watch a great deal of films. In fact, I think it can lead to imitation and unhealthy competition, which just isn’t needed.
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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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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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It’s about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That’s partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone does unless they pursue roles that are very different from what they’ve done before.
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We 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.
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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 would have been very happy just cruising around and enjoying the unexpected. I’ve never been ambitious.
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