Michael Fassbender Quotes

What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don't want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared.
Michael Fassbender

Different, Find, Try

Even if I'm playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality.
Michael Fassbender

Reality, Playing, Superhero

'Hunger' definitely changed my life, in terms of being recognized by filmmakers, since that was very much a filmmakers' film.
Michael Fassbender

Life, Film, Since

Any good kitchen should be stocked up in oysters, shouldn't they?
Michael Fassbender

Good, Kitchen, Oysters

Everything I put my name to and take part in, I want to be good. That's not saying it will always happen. But I want to make bold choices.
Michael Fassbender

Good, Saying, Happen

I always approach film as a fan.
Michael Fassbender

Film, Approach, Fan

I don't think peroxide-blond hair is a beneficial look for me.
Michael Fassbender

Hair, Beneficial

I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.
Michael Fassbender

Simple, Keep, Stories

I take my work seriously but I can't take myself too seriously. I'm in such a crazy privileged position.
Michael Fassbender

Work, Crazy, Seriously

I'm fairly competitive.
Michael Fassbender

I've always been more inclined to go out to work than carry on with academic studies.
Michael Fassbender

Work, Carry, Studies

It's more interesting isn't it, if I've got a hedonistic dark side?
Michael Fassbender

Dark, Side, Hedonistic

My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough.' That became my mantra.
Michael Fassbender

Good, Goal, Enough

Nobody wants to hear Metallica at lunchtime.
Michael Fassbender

Nobody, Hear, Wants

People are complicated. Our behavior towards one another is strange. So I like opportunities to investigate that.
Michael Fassbender

Strange, Another, Behavior

The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.
Michael Fassbender

Alive, Influence, Consider

There's no point in swanning through and being cool as a breeze in every scene. It's not really that interesting. Even if you're a superhero.
Michael Fassbender

Cool, Through, Point

As an audience member, those studio films are fun. I like an adventure tale, and I also like to go see something that has more of a social pulse. I like to keep learning and trying new things. And if the scripts are good, it doesn't really matter.
Michael Fassbender

Good, Learning, Fun

I came to Los Angeles and did auditions for television. I made a terrible mess of most of them and I was quite intimidated. I felt very embarrassed and went back to London. I got British television jobs intermittently between the ages of 23 and 27, but it was very patchy.
Michael Fassbender

Between, Quite, Felt

I don't know what's going to happen. I'm flavor of the month at the moment, but somebody else is going to roll around the corner in three months' time. I just want to keep working. I can't stop!
Michael Fassbender

Time, Happen, Working

I guess in the independent market, I'd be getting offers, but in terms of big studio films, I still have to audition. I don't think my name is that well-known, I don't have much of a following to guarantee box office success yet.
Michael Fassbender

Success, Big, Getting

I just went off for two months traveling around Europe on a motorcycle and pretty much turned my phone off. I did 5,000 miles with my dad. We went through Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Italy... and then I did Spain and France by myself.
Michael Fassbender

Dad, Through, Two

I'm always interested in trying to investigate different personalities. I want to keep myself guessing and keep the fear element alive, so that I don't get too comfortable.
Michael Fassbender

Fear, Different, Trying

If there's friends around, I'll cook. Or if I have a girlfriend. But on my own I kind of fell out of the habit of it, and it's a shame really because I know it's good for me. It's something quite therapeutic.
Michael Fassbender

Good, Friends, Around

Magneto has a whole lot of complexity to him. Emotionally, he's coming from a very damaged place. I like the ambivalence of it. I want the audience leaving the theater wondering, asking the questions themselves rather than being spoon-fed like a lot of these super-villain characters.
Michael Fassbender

Him, Leaving, Place

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Actor

Born: April 2, 1977

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