Christian Bale Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Christian Bale

  People, Want, Kind

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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.

  Christian Bale

  Real, Acting, Jerk

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• Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. As an actor, you're giving it up, you're at the mercy of so many other people.

  Christian Bale

  Art, Giving, People

  "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

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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.

  Christian Bale

  Thinking, Relaxation, Important

  Source: collider.com

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• If I'm not working, I really have nothing to do with it - I'm not hanging out and mixing with film people. Not that I have anything against film people; they're some of the best people around and some of the worst people around, just like in any business... they just gesticulate a little bit more.

  Christian Bale

  People, Littles, Mixing

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• You have to treat yourself like a mushroom to some degree, in order to keep on discovering things.

  Christian Bale

  Order, Mushrooms, Degrees

  "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

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• 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 Bale

  Character, Embarrassing, Embarrassment

  "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

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• Sometimes the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people have got to have their faith rewarded.

  Christian Bale

  Truth, Dark, Reality

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• I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I'm not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I'll just see what happens with it.

  Christian Bale

  Past, Thinking, Years

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

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• Being misunderstood is not a bad thing as an actor. I know the truth.

  Christian Bale

  Misunderstood, Actors, I Know The Truth

  "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

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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.

  Christian Bale

  Feelings, Risk, Emotion

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• I've had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I'm trivializing them by using them for a scene in a movie. I don't want to do that. It just makes me feel kind of dirty for having done that.

  Christian Bale

  Dirty, Naughty, Painful Experiences

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

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• 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.

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• 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 Bale

  Dog, Dark, Deserve More

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• I want to do good work. I want the opportunity to work with good people, and the only way I'm gonna do that is to commit 110% - you get out what you put in.

  Christian Bale

  Opportunity, People, Want

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• I feel like I'm pretty good but I don't like to toot my own horn, you know. I want to let the work speak for itself and kind of move on to the next thing.

  Christian Bale

  Moving, Want, Next

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• I have a fear of being boring.

  Christian Bale

  Fear, Boredom, Acting

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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.

  Christian Bale

  Lying, Stupid, Achievement

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• And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.

  Christian Bale

  Bored, Parent, Routine

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

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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.

  Christian Bale

  Thinking, Long, People

  "Christian Bale: The Actor Is on a Fantastic Voyage". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. 2001.

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• I would have been very happy just cruising around and enjoying the unexpected. I've never been ambitious.

  Christian Bale

  Ambitious, Unexpected, Enjoy

  "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

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• Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark.

  Christian Bale

  Dark, Misery, Attraction

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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?

  Christian Bale

  Disappointment, Challenges, Done

  "Christian Bale: The Actor Is on a Fantastic Voyage". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. 2001.

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• Well, it's embarrassing to be a star.

  Christian Bale

  Stars, Embarrassing, Wells

  "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

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• 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.

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