You’ll hunt me. You’ll condemn me. Set the dogs on me. Because that’s what needs to happen. Because sometimes truth isn’t good enough. Sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded.
CHRISTIAN BALEBut 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.
More Christian Bale Quotes
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I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do.
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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 only sound intelligent when there’s a good script writer around.
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An actor should never be larger than the film he’s in.
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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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In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We’re in love with each other beyond belief.
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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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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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I 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.
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The interesting thing about a movie is the movie.
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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 think it’s important when you’re acting to be as relaxed as possible even if you’re doing something intense. You’re basically in a state of dynamic relaxation.
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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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I never want to feel that I’m playing it safe.
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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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