Christian Bale Quotes

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.

Directors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they are.

If something’s true and sincere, it happens regardless of marketing. The more I talk about it, the more I’m telling people how they should react. And that is an asshole.

I become a bit of a blank page in public. And that’s precisely why I like acting.

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.

There’s nothing like boxing for getting you in shape.

Sometimes the truth isn’t good enough. Sometimes people have got to have their faith rewarded.

If I’m not working, I really have nothing to do with it – I’m not hanging out and mixing with film people. Not that I have anything against film people; they’re some of the best people around and some of the worst people around, just like in any business… they just gesticulate a little bit more.

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.

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

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

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.