Latest Michael Fassbender Quotes from Interviews

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• I try my best to find variety in what I'm doing, but there's a lot out there that's the same.

  Michael Fassbender

  Trying, Variety

  "Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender on The Light Between Oceans". Interview with Joe McGovern, ew.com. September 02, 2016.

• The actors I looked up to when I was a teenager, they all just disappeared into different characters.

  Michael Fassbender

  Teenager, Character, Different

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

• It's a difficult thing as an actor not to repeat one's self.

  Michael Fassbender

  Self, Actors, Difficult

  "Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender on The Light Between Oceans". Interview with Joe McGovern, ew.com. September 02, 2016.

• 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.

• We're all curious about a lot of things.

  Michael Fassbender

  Curious

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• It's such a terrifying thing when mobs of people get together and persecute foreigners.

  Michael Fassbender

  People, Together, Foreigners

  "Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender on The Light Between Oceans". Interview with Joe McGovern, ew.com. September 2, 2016.

• '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.

• 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.

• As an actor, it's always been good to be working at all.

  Michael Fassbender

  Actors

  "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.

• You know, when you finish the day, and you finish the scene, you don't get a chance to go back to it. So you wanna make sure that everything is left on the floor.

  Michael Fassbender

  Chance, Scene, Knows

  "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.

• 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.

• Nowadays, especially in big commercial films it's much easier for the audience, and they tend to get spoonfed. It's much more interesting to me, people leave the theater and they start asking themselves questions and find their own moral compass about what these characters have been doing.

  Michael Fassbender

  Character, People, Interesting

  "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.

• 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.

• I think that idea of alienation, for whatever reason, is still very prevalent within our society and a lot of people deal with it - most people deal with it at some point in their life unless they're sort of the golden child. I think that's something that we all need to address.

  Michael Fassbender

  Children, Thinking, Ideas

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

• 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.

• When I go the cinema, unfortunately nowadays, especially with the big commercial films, the audience is spoon-fed through the entire experience and they don't have to do any work.

  Michael Fassbender

  Cinema, Spoons, Film

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

• 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.

• 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.

• Being movie director you've got the art department, you've got the actors, you've got the camera department, you've got make-up and hair, and props. You've got your finger in all these pies, and you're making sure that everything cooks at the right temperature.

  Michael Fassbender

  Art, Pie, Hair

  "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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.