Christian Bale Quotes

I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.

Well, it's embarrassing to be a star.

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.

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?

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.

I want to do good work. I want the opportunity to work with good people, and the only way I'm gonna do that is to commit 110% - you get out what you put in.

There's a level of confidence in the actor you're working with that really helps a lot. It makes all the difference.

I'm not really looking forward to wearing a black rubber suit in the summertime in humid Chicago. If you see a pool of sweat through the city, follow it and you will find me.

Look, I've got incredible pride for my family. I've absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just happily talk about my daughter endlessly.

It was a great honor to be called a mo-fo by Sam Jackson.

I like being responsible for myself

If you're doing your job properly, you take the risk of feeling slightly foolish and delve in and bring out the emotions.

Working out is incredibly boring. I swear it's true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer brain cells you have.

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

Being misunderstood is not a bad thing as an actor. I know the truth.

In honesty, there are probably a lot of stories that can be told with Batman. I like the idea of him growing older and he can't quite do it as much anymore.

My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.

As an actor, I don't feel like it's necessary to watch a great deal of films. In fact, I think it can lead to imitation and unhealthy competition, which just isn't needed.

The blue collar milieu was something that I really understood and resonated with me and I thought was underrepresented in American cinema.

I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous.

In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief.

I think there's a limited amount of planning you can do, at least in the position I'm in. Maybe more successful actors can plan more than I'm able to.

I find what I do for a living really funny. I mean, acting is kind of a hilarious thing for a grown man to call a job.

Planning a career, I always find that such a tricky thing, because I don't have much of a plan, really.

I'm not really into musicals.

I was born in Wales but I'm not Welsh - I'm English.

I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.

I never applied to any acting schools. I don't know if that's just bad reporting, or - sometimes I just make stuff up.

I don't ever really sit back and look at roles I've taken and look at any similarities.

I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of acting tricks I've amassed over the years.

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.

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.

The risk element only came from acknowledging other people's attitudes toward it, and realizing that they considered it to be a risk for me to do.

What I like about it is that I'm not somebody who's in movies. I'm a guy who's not very good going around the track with a bunch of guys who are a hell of a lot better.

A lot of actors say that theater's the thing for them. And that's great, and I'm not one to speak with any authority about it because of not having done it properly. For me, movies are what I love.

I started my career without fans.

It was just the two of us, inside there with just mirrors, all the way around us. Everywhere we looked, there were these two freaks, sitting at a table, eyeballing each other.

I quite like it when you're working with people and you only get to know them through the scenes that you're doing together.

If you're smart you're just gonna be all about the work. But as a young person, you want to going out to clubs and doing all the stuff. I'm just glad I survived it.

I don't have acknowledged preferences of characters.

Any planning that I have in my career is totally accidental really.

I want to be able to just act and never do any interview, but I don't have the balls to stand up to the studio and say, "I'm never doing another interview in my life!"

It's a wonderful thing when your trainer is actually the person you're playing.

I think the harder the shoot, the more I feel like I'm enjoying myself.

I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.

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.