Christian Bale quotes His role as James Graham in 'Empire of the Sun' (1987) Born: 01/30/1974 Country: united_kingdom

• I have a fear of being boring. (Christian Bale) [fear/being]
• All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You've said that you will commit to this part, and I just can't live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can. (Christian Bale) [time/deadline/willpower]
• An actor should never be larger than the film he's in. (Christian Bale) [film]
• And being as I'm somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I get in the mood for all kinds of movies, and so I like to try each of them. (Christian Bale) [being/love]
• But after having done American Psycho and Shaft, I found it a breath of fresh air to play somebody who's completely human in terms of his emotions. (Christian Bale) [human]
• 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) [mind/amount/time/right]
• Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing. (Christian Bale) [imagination]
• I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene. (Christian Bale) [look/life]
• 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) [think]
• I have a fear of being boring. (Christian Bale) [fear/being]
• I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around. (Christian Bale) [sound]
• I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway. (Christian Bale) [think]
• I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do. (Christian Bale) [think/thing]
• 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/look/attack/thinking]
• 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) [life/movie]
• If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest. (Christian Bale) [life]
• 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)
• It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me. (Christian Bale)
• It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience. (Christian Bale) [actors]
• My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message. (Christian Bale) [people/willpower/difference]
• 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) [hope-disappointment]
• A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it, so why even bother? (Christian Bale)
• 'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it. (Christian Bale)
• 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)
• Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing. (Christian Bale)
• I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living. (Christian Bale)
• I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it? (Christian Bale)
• I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical. (Christian Bale)
• I never want to feel that I'm playing it safe. (Christian Bale)
• I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, 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)
• I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless I'm getting audited and I'm on the street and I desperately need some dough and that's the only thing that I'm getting. (Christian Bale)

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