Michael Fassbender Quotes

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• Big things have small beginnings.

  Michael Fassbender

  Cinema, Bigs, Humble Beginnings

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• Everyone's crazy anyway. And those who think they aren't, are the ones who are even crazier - because they're in denial.

  Michael Fassbender

  Crazy, Thinking, Denial

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

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• What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don't want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared.

  Michael Fassbender

  Interesting, Risk, Trying

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• I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.

  Michael Fassbender

  Simple, Stories, Telling Stories

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• You want society to accept you; but you can’t even accept yourself.

  Michael Fassbender

  Want, Accepting Yourself, X Men

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• I quite enjoy the lines on my forehead because they show my life. That’s my history and I like to see that in other people. Like this wrinkle is due to some girl who broke my heart. I don’t want to escape it in any way.

  Michael Fassbender

  Girl, Heart, Wrinkles

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• We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

  Michael Fassbender

  Silly, Mean, Pressure

  "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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• I’m aware of my weaknesses and THE BEAST WITHIN.

  Michael Fassbender

  Weakness, Beast, Beast Within

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• I remember hearing that the spirit was always next to you, so I would always make room in my bed for the spirit ... I'd make room for the teddy bears, Jesus and me. And then I'd wake up in the morning, and I'd squashed 'em all.

  Michael Fassbender

  Jesus, Morning, Bed

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• Nobody wants to hear Metallica at lunchtime.

  Michael Fassbender

  Want, Metallica, Lunchtime

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

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• Trying to identify and understand, as opposed to judging, is very important for me, in approaching characters.

  Michael Fassbender

  Character, Judging, Important

  "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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• 'Cause I do so much homework I'm good to go on the first take; I don't want to rehearse. I like the element of what's unpredictable of that first take and nobody knows what's going to happen, and I'm a big fan of that.

  Michael Fassbender

  Firsts, Causes, Fans

  "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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• I love to go into a movie and have no idea what's going to happen in it.

  Michael Fassbender

  Ideas, Happens, No Idea

  "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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• I don't like to plan anything ever because it never seems to work. I'm just really...let's just get this film out and see how this one does.

  Michael Fassbender

  Doe, Film, Plans

  "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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• There's so much going on in the world. There's so much information being thrown at us - so many things are being sold to us, and we're being told how we should appear and how to be more successful, blah, blah, blah. How does that manifest itself? In the pressures, the stress, this need to escape.

  Michael Fassbender

  Stress, Successful, Doe

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

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• I take my work seriously but I can't take myself too seriously. I'm in such a crazy privileged position.

  Michael Fassbender

  Crazy, Position, Privileged

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• [As an actor] I have ideas, but things should always be fluid. You should always be ready to follow an instinct. Something might reveal itself on the day.

  Michael Fassbender

  Ideas, Actors, Might

  "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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• It's more interesting isn't it, if I've got a hedonistic dark side?

  Michael Fassbender

  Dark, Interesting, Sides

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• If you're dealing with a character that actually exists, there's an awful lot of information there. So, you can put together, from the information, motivations, insecurities, reactions. Where does that seed get born, if you like?... What I do is put that together.

  Michael Fassbender

  Motivation, Character, Insecurity

  "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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• I believe that if you go and see a film you should have to sort of invest something yourself and you have to do a little bit of the work as an audience member, so when you leave the cinema you should be having those conversations either with yourself - if you're crazy like me- or with friends afterwards.

  Michael Fassbender

  Crazy, Believe, Should Have

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

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• My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough'. That became my mantra.

  Michael Fassbender

  Goal, Acting, Income

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

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• You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from.

  Michael Fassbender

  Teacher, Drama, School

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 8, 2011.

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• "X-Men" is not really about mutants; it's about humanity. I think it's about the human race. We're an absolutely destructive race. It seems that we can't seem to get beyond this level of tribalism that has been around for thousands of years. Anything we fear we tend to destroy.

  Michael Fassbender

  Men, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I could never swim in the ocean after seeing Jaws.

  Michael Fassbender

  Ocean, Swim, Seeing

  "Director Ridley Scott, Writer Damon Lindelof and Michael Fassbender Talk PROMETHEUS at WonderCon 2012". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 18, 2012.

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• I'm always interested in trying to investigate different personalities. I want to keep myself guessing and keep the fear element alive, so that I don't get too comfortable.

  Michael Fassbender

  Personality, Trying, Different

  "Michael Fassbender on Shooting Nude, Being Poor, Whom His Oscar Date Would Be". Interview with Pamela McClintock, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 18, 2012.

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