Christian Bale Quotes

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

Good, Mean, Whole

I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.
Christian Bale

Why, Scared, Fearless

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

Happy, Yourself, Character

I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of that. And I like the commitment that is needed for that.
Christian Bale

Enjoy, Seriously, Stuff

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

Life, Attitude, End

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

Done, Challenge, Felt

I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do.
Christian Bale

Sexy, Woman, Hard

If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest.
Christian Bale

Life, Real, Everyone

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

Someone, Person, Trying

A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.
Christian Bale

Someone, Him, Try

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

Film, Actor, Larger

It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.
Christian Bale

Defines, Underneath

'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

Thinking, Two, After

All I've ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of crosswords that I didn't finish and maybe some old bicycle that I found lying around on set.
Christian Bale

Stupid, Old, Around

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, Live, Real

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

Love, Movies, Try

And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.
Christian Bale

Parents, Boring, Bored

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.
Christian Bale

Art, Proud, Compromise

'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

Time, Long, Before

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

Time, Mind, Short

Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark.
Christian Bale

Dark, Misery, Attraction

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

Person, Try, Put

How serious can a movie about time-traveling robots be? You want it to be cool and fun.
Christian Bale

Cool, Fun, Serious

I always figure hey, look, I'm not a rock star, I'm an actor. I'm somebody who's meant to be other people and I'm not meant to be here representing myself. I'm happier when I'm presenting myself as other characters.
Christian Bale

Rock, Here, Actor

I always leave that 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

Movies, Nothing, Else

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Biography

Nationality: Welsh

Type: Actor

Born: January 30, 1974

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