Latest Christian Bale Quotes from Interviews

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• When I imagined my life, I always thought I'd be in my mid-30s before I felt capable of marrying. But I suddenly found that I'd met somebody and I said, "Screw it. I'm not gonna sit here saying, 'Oh no, I'm not ready,' and regret not having done this later on and the possibility of not having this person around." I thought, I'll jump into it and we'll figure it out as we go along.

  Christian Bale

  Regret, Done, Possibility

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

  Christian Bale

  Acting

• The risk element only came from acknowledging other people's attitudes toward it, and realizing that they considered it to be a risk for me to do.

  Christian Bale

  Attitude, Risk, Realizing

• 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

• You either decide to take the easy way out, which means you're only going to disappoint yourself and everybody else, or you take the risk right now of being a fool, which is the only way you'll end up being exhilarated later on when you actually watch the movie.

  Christian Bale

  Mean, Risk, Fool

• 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

• As an actor, I don't feel like it's necessary to watch a great deal of films. In fact, I think it can lead to imitation and unhealthy competition, which just isn't needed.

  Christian Bale

  Thinking, Competition, Film

• 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

• It was always that I finished one movie and then had no idea what I was doing. I think there's a limited amount of planning you can do, at least in the position I'm in. Maybe more successful actors can plan more than I'm able to.

  Christian Bale

  Successful, Thinking, Planning

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I ain't the first on the list that people are sending scripts to. I'm very lucky. I've managed to put myself in the position with some directors, yes, who will be calling me directly, and we're working on things and talking about things, but that's on a purely creative level. And then you go and have to deal with the financial level.

  Christian Bale

  People, Creative, Lucky

  Source: film.avclub.com

• Planning a career, I always find a tricky thing, because I don't have much of a plan, really.

  Christian Bale

  Planning, Tricky

  Source: film.avclub.com

• People always say, "What do you want to do next, what kind of movie do you want to do next?" And I say, "I wanna do whatever script that is the best one that comes my way." I certainly would never say, "Oh, I'm gonna do a Western next," and sit around waitin' for a Western to come along when there's some other genre's brilliant script sitting right there.

  Christian Bale

  People, Brilliant, Kind

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I always leave disaster for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people's favorite movies. And that's what I like so much, is that you never know. Something intrigues somebody and means nothing to somebody else.

  Christian Bale

  Mean, People, Disaster

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I don't like filmmakers to tell people how they should react to their movies. I absolutely have favorites, and I have others that I'm mortified by, but I keep that to myself. I think I've managed to find some very interesting things that I've been very satisfied with recently. I don't know if that's gonna keep going.

  Christian Bale

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Source: film.avclub.com

• For me, I think the harder the shoot, the more I feel like I'm enjoying myself.

  Christian Bale

  Thinking, Enjoy

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I don't ever really sit back and look at roles I've taken and look at any similarities.

  Christian Bale

  Taken, Similarity

  Source: film.avclub.com

• There's a level of confidence in the actor you're working with that really helps a lot. It makes all the difference.

  Christian Bale

  Differences, Actors, Levels

  Source: collider.com

• I chose to tell a personal story. When you tell a movie like this that's as emotionally charged as this is, it's a risk. As one of my great cinematic heroes, Francis Coppola, would say, "If you aren't taking the highest, greatest risk, then why are you a filmmaker?"

  Christian Bale

  Hero, Risk, Stories

  Source: collider.com

• After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.

  Christian Bale

  Expectations, Firsts, Kind

  Source: collider.com

• Directors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they are.

  Christian Bale

  Careers, Directors, Stories

  Source: collider.com

• It's very easy to leave when things go wrong, but to stick around and to basically give life to a town because of everything that it gave you generation after generation after generation, that to me is what defines a true American.

  Christian Bale

  Giving, Generations, Towns

  Source: collider.com

• 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

• It helps so much being on location. It's like the difference between performing for the rectangle of the camera versus a world being created and then the camera finds things within that. There's a huge difference in that, because what it takes away is performance. You don't feel like performing. You're just kind of doing it. You're existing.

  Christian Bale

  Differences, Cameras, World

  "Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Woody Harrelson, Zoe Saldana, and Director Scott Cooper Talk OUT OF THE FURNACE, Filming Entirely On Location, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. December 2, 2013.

• The blue collar milieu was something that I really understood and resonated with me and I thought was underrepresented in American cinema.

  Christian Bale

  Blue, Cinema, Collars

  Source: collider.com

• I ain't the first on the list that people are sending scripts to. I'm very lucky. I've managed to put myself in the position with some directors, who will be calling me directly, and we're working on things and talking about things, but that's on a purely creative level.

  Christian Bale

  Talking, People, Creative

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. September 5, 2007.