Christian Bale Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.

  Christian Bale

  Thinking, Fearless, Acting

  "New Again: Christian Bale". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 17, 2012.

• I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around.

  Christian Bale

  Intelligent, Acting, Sound

• 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.

  Christian Bale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• An actor should never be larger than the film he's in.

  Christian Bale

  Acting, Actors, Film

  Spin Magazine Interview, March 1996.

• I have a fear of being boring.

  Christian Bale

  Fear, Boredom, Acting

• 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 Bale

  Shoes, Imagination, Trying

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. October 15, 2004.

• It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along.

  Christian Bale

  Waiting, Acting, Typecasting

  "New Again: Christian Bale". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 18, 2012.

• When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things.

  Christian Bale

  Character, Two, People

• Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set.

  Christian Bale

  Light, People, Acting

  "New Again: Christian Bale". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 17, 2012.

• It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.

  Christian Bale

  Who I Am, Superhero, Acting

• 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.

  Christian Bale

  Shoes, People, Empathy

• If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest.

  Christian Bale

  Real, Acting, Jerk

• I become a bit of a blank page in public. And that's precisely why I like acting.

  Christian Bale

  Acting

• I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.

  Christian Bale

  Play, Acting, Looks

  "IGN Interviews Christian Bale". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. October 15, 2004.

• I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played. They're all really far from who I am.

  Christian Bale

  Character, Thinking, Who I Am

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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.

  Christian Bale

  Jobs, Mean, Men

• I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of acting tricks I've amassed over the years.

  Christian Bale

  Movie, Years, Acting

• 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.

  Christian Bale

  Thinking, Relaxation, Important

  Source: collider.com

• There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real life circumstances, would be absolutely unbelievable things to really say, and you would look at these people like they're freaks for conversing that way. But somehow for certain styles of movies, it works, and it seems fine.

  Christian Bale

  Real, People, Style

• I never applied to any acting schools. I don't know if that's just bad reporting, or - sometimes I just make stuff up.

  Christian Bale

  School, Acting, Sometimes

  Source: film.avclub.com

• You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.

  Christian Bale

  Jobs, Creating, Acting

• Suddenly people were saying I was cocky because I'd done a Steven Spielberg movie and thought I was better than everyone else, which surprised me at first. I suddenly started feeling like a freak because everyone was treating me differently. It was confusing, and I did wonder if acting was for me anymore.

  Christian Bale

  Cocky, People, Feelings

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