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

• I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous. (Christian Bale)
• In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief. (Christian Bale)
• In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron. (Christian Bale)
• It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting. (Christian Bale)
• Nuclear apocalypse - who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops. (Christian Bale)
• Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set. (Christian Bale)
• So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that he can say, 'oh yeah - that's a great point.' And you never know; often you can help far more than you think you can, because there's so much more that he's juggling than an actor. (Christian Bale)
• The interesting thing about a movie is the movie. (Christian Bale)
• The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions. (Christian Bale)
• There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real life circumstances, would be absolutely unbelievable things to really say, and you would look at these people like they're freaks for conversing that way. But somehow for certain styles of movies, it works, and it seems fine. (Christian Bale)
• There have been many times when you spend a number of months and the finished product is not what you wanted to see. And 'Batman Begins' was what I wanted to see. (Christian Bale)
• 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)
• 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)
• When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things. (Christian Bale)
• You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not. (Christian Bale)

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