It’s not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.
CHRISTIAN BALEYou’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.
More Christian Bale Quotes
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If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn’t be so adored in the slightest.
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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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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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We’re all conning ourselves, one way or another, just to get through life.
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I only sound intelligent when there’s a good script writer around.
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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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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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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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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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I always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people’s favorite movies. And that’s what I like so much, is that you never know. Something intrigues somebody and means nothing to somebody else.
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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 don’t personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.
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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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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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Sometimes the truth isn’t good enough. Sometimes people have got to have their faith rewarded.
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