Michael Fassbender Quotes - Page 2

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• We did a lot of that in drama school: intellectualising and maybe justifying your position. 'I am a thinking actor and I have thought this through' - well, just do it. I much prefer the doing aspect.

  Michael Fassbender

  Drama, School, Thinking

  "What's a nice boy like Michael Fassbender doing in a film like Shame?". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.

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• Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed because we all are. When people break up in a script, you think, Oh, right, there must be tears shed here. But maybe the fact of the matter is that they're both laughing.

  Michael Fassbender

  Break Up, Breakup, Character

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• Everything I put my name to and take part in, I want to be good. That's not saying it will always happen. But I want to make bold choices.

  Michael Fassbender

  Names, Choices, Want

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• If you're dealing with heavy topic matter, sometimes it's good to have a lightness going into it because it allows you to be open to possibilities, rather than getting rigidly stuck into a certain mind-set. People are strange. When you break up, sometimes you end up laughing with one another, as opposed to crying. Things in life are unusual, and to find those things, it's best to be relaxed.

  Michael Fassbender

  Things In Life, People, Laughing

  "Michael Fassbender Talks SHAME, A DANGEROUS METHOD and the X-MEN: FIRST CLASS Sequel". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 21, 2011.

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• It's the worst thing if you're sitting there in the theater, going, "Oh, that's the guy who dates this person and likes to do this in the morning and that in the afternoon." Then you're just watching a brand, as opposed to an actor.

  Michael Fassbender

  Morning, Guy, Sitting

  "Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender on their relationship, onscreen and off". Interview with Joe McGovern, ew.com. August 26, 2016.

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• As an audience member and as an actor I much prefer to find ambiguity.

  Michael Fassbender

  Actors, Members, Ambiguity

  "January Jones, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Kevin Bacon, Zoë Kravitz, Rose Byrne & Lucas Till Talk X-MEN: FIRST CLASS". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. June 1, 2011.

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• When I was four, I just wanted to drive, I collected toy cars. Where does that sort of thing come from? In hindsight you go, 'Oh, liked it because of this.' Maybe it's just the wheel.

  Michael Fassbender

  Car, Doe, Four

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• There's no point thinking, 'Well, my life's certainly worked out, I've got all the answers.' It would be wrong for me to say that I don't get seduced by certain things. That things don't become tempting.

  Michael Fassbender

  Thinking, Would Be, Answers

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• Any good kitchen should be stocked up in oysters, shouldn't they?

  Michael Fassbender

  Oysters, Kitchen, Should

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• I might have been curious about actors' lives when I was growing up. That's human nature.

  Michael Fassbender

  Growing Up, Actors, Might

  "Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender on their relationship, onscreen and off". Interview with Joe McGovern, ew.com. August 26, 2016.

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• I definitely think the first works best.

  Michael Fassbender

  Thinking, Firsts

  "Michael Fassbender on the Long Takes of ‘Light Between Oceans’ and the Scariness of ‘Alien: Covenant’". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 29, 2016.

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• Some actors might just do one thing, and another actor does another thing. I do an awful lot of preparation with the script, really. What I do is repeat the script, over and over and over again. Through that, it's almost like it seeps into my enamel. I'm reading all the characters, as well as my own. That is where the bulk of my preparation goes into.

  Michael Fassbender

  Reading, Character, Preparation

  "Michael Fassbender Talks Haywire, Twelve Years a Slave, Prometheus, and X-men: First Class Sequel". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 17, 2012.

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• At one point you think, well, it's funny, I could just be a starving actor... So if somebody were to pull the plug right now, there'd be no room for complaint.

  Michael Fassbender

  Thinking, Actors, Rooms

  Interview with Josh Brolin, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 6, 2012.

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• The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.

  Michael Fassbender

  Art, Alive, Influence

  "Fassbender on Fire" by Pamela McClintoc, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 17, 2012.

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• I'm not going to talk about my private life with a total stranger, unless I feel like I need to. Why would I? I don't.

  Michael Fassbender

  Needs, Stranger, Feels

  "Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender on their relationship, onscreen and off". Interview with Joe McGovern, ew.com. August 26, 2016.

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• If there's friends around, I'll cook. Or if I have a girlfriend. But on my own I kind of fell out of the habit of it, and it's a shame really because I know it's good for me. It's something quite therapeutic.

  Michael Fassbender

  Girlfriend, Kind, Shame

  Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. May 15, 2012.

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• As an audience member, those studio films are fun. I like an adventure tale, and I also like to go see something that has more of a social pulse. I like to keep learning and trying new things. And if the scripts are good, it doesn't really matter.

  Michael Fassbender

  Fun, Adventure, Trying

  "Fassbender on Fire" by Pamela McClintock, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 17, 2012.

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• For me, addiction comes down to basically where a pattern of behaviour has developed and that pattern of behaviour is becoming a very damaging cycle. It's sort of damaging your relationships, friends or lovers, it's damaging your own personal health and it's damaging for you and your workplace.

  Michael Fassbender

  Addiction, Behaviour, Patterns

  "Shame - Michael Fassbender interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I suppose the doctor-patient relationship has that idea of transference. I think it's a special thing that doctors have. We all find doctors sexy. That's why there are so many TV shows about doctors.

  Michael Fassbender

  Sexy, Thinking, Ideas

  "Michael Fassbender Talks A DANGEROUS METHOD, ROBOCOP, and AT SWIM-TWO BIRDS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 25, 2011.

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• I think the fact that us as a race still continues to be very tribal and we haven't really moved away from that over hundreds and hundreds of years of experience.

  Michael Fassbender

  Thinking, Race, Years

  "X-Men: First Class - Michael Fassbender interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• If I'm playing a murderer, I don't go out and start murdering people.

  Michael Fassbender

  People, Murderer, Ifs

  "Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender on their relationship, onscreen and off". Interview with Joe McGovern, ew.com. August 26, 2016.

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• Sometimes if I stick in a character too much I feel like I might start to get blinkered, because I'm making my decisions too definite.

  Michael Fassbender

  Character, Decision, Might

  "Michael Fassbender Talks PROMETHEUS, Ridley Scott, Viral Advertising, TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE, Possible PROMETHEUS Sequels, More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 31, 2012.

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• If you're addicted to gambling, you know where to go to gamble. So, if you have a condition where you're addicted to sex, you know where other that are looking for the same thing are going.

  Michael Fassbender

  Sex, Gambling, Gamble

  "Michael Fassbender and Director Steve McQueen SHAME Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 29, 2011.

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• I'm fairly competitive.

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• I don't know what's going to happen. I'm flavor of the month at the moment, but somebody else is going to roll around the corner in three months' time. I just want to keep working. I can't stop!

  Michael Fassbender

  Flavor Of The Month, Three, Want

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