Christian Bale Quotes - Page 3

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• Putting on weight is easy all the way through. But after the first couple of weeks, the novelty wears off very quickly, and your body is groaning and starting to really shout at you, saying, 'Why? Why? Why? Why are you doing this?'

  Christian Bale

  Couple, Weight, Body

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• I certainly liked performing [Patrick Bateman], but it was because he thinks he's so [bloody] cool and just the [stuff], but is really such a cheesy dork.

  Christian Bale

  Thinking, Cheesy, Stuff

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• People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy and I can't do that as Bruce Wayne. As a man I'm flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed, but as a symbol, as a symbol I can be incorruptible. I can be everlasting.

  Christian Bale

  Men, Blood, People

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• I never, in any city I've ever been in, never remember the names of streets. The longest place I ever lived in was for five years and I didn't know the name of the next street over.

  Christian Bale

  Years, Cities, Names

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

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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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• I swear, the bigger your muscles get, the duller you are. You become fascinated with carbs and protein and ripped abs and things that are just not interesting at all.

  Christian Bale

  Interesting, Protein, Bigger

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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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• I'm sure you find it fascinating. It's always interesting for everybody to look at people who've been pushed to the brink. You wonder how you would fare with that. Nobody's interested in somebody who doesn't ever really do anything. I don't have a choice in that. I will always go for those kinds of characters. Each one is a separate choice for me, but I think it's fairly natural to find yourself gravitating towards people who have done extraordinary things.

  Christian Bale

  Character, Thinking, Interesting

  "Christian Bale Pushes the Limits in Rescue Dawn". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. July 8, 2007.

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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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• But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn't mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did actually go from 121 right back up to 180, which is way too fast obviously. And that resulted in some doctors visits to get things sorted out.

  Christian Bale

  Doctors, Sick, Mind

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• 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

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• '3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason is because, like in most Westerns, you have the very clear-cut bad-guy/good-guy, however, as the movie progresses, you kind of see that it's a very fine line that divides these two.

  Christian Bale

  Reading, Cutting, Thinking

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

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• We are starting off with our own different characters and our own laws and everything, looking at Bruce Wayne and how he came to be the person that he was and how he comes to be this man that jumps around in the Bat suit.

  Christian Bale

  Character, Men, Law

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

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• It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That's partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone does unless they pursue roles that are very different from what they've done before.

  Christian Bale

  Waiting, Roles, Done

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

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• We were incredibly fortunate to get to make three Batman films. That's enough. Let's not get greedy. It's a torch that should be handed from one actor to another. So I enjoy looking forward to what somebody else will come up with.

  Christian Bale

  Torches, Three, Actors

  "Christian Bale won't be Batman in 'Justice League' movie" by Adam Markovitz, www.cnn.com. July 2, 2013.

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• I don't want to know about the lives of other actors and I don't want people to know too much about me. If we don't know about the private lives of other actors, that leaves us as clean slates when it comes to playing characters. That's the point, they can create these other characters and I can believe them. I think if you're a good enough actor, that's the way to longevity in the film business. Keep everybody guessing.

  Christian Bale

  Believe, Character, Thinking

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

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• For me any moment in front of a crowd is embarrassing, because I can't stand being in front of people. I'm probably one of the worst public speakers. I try to avoid it, but there are times when it's just too rude not to do it. But there really isn't a moment that's not embarrassing for me if I'm going to stand up in front of a crowd.

  Christian Bale

  People, Rude, Trying

  "Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale". Interview, www.shortlist.com.

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• I'm not an actor that tends to care. I don't ask "Is this a close up? Is this a master? Is this a wide? What are you doing?" If I look up and notice the camera I go "Oh, it's a big one today, must be an IMAX." And that's kinda it for me because it doesn't affect what I'm doing.

  Christian Bale

  Actors, Care, Today

  "Christian Bale Talks Shooting in IMAX, Ending the Trilogy, Fight Scenes with Bane & More on the Set of THE DARK KNIGHT RISES". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. May 27, 2012.

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• 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

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

  Christian Bale

  Intelligent, Acting, Sound

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

  Christian Bale

  Acting, Actors, Film

  Spin Magazine Interview, March 1996.

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• I don't think I was particularly in need of superheroes. I never had any fascination with Superman or Spider-Man or a Batman kind of character. If it happened at all, it was imagined characters that I had invented. My dad was a role model for me. He was a fascinating man. There was intrigue and entertainment growing up with him. He gave me an edict that I still pursue: “Life should never be boring."

  Christian Bale

  Growing Up, Dad, Character

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

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• What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there.

  Christian Bale

  Running, Men, Cities

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• You say something bad about Newsies and you have an awful lot of people to answer to.

  Christian Bale

  People, Answers, Awful

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

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• The interesting thing about a movie is the movie.

  Christian Bale

  Movie, Interesting, Actors

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

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