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Christian Bale, born on January 30, 1974, is a renowned actor from the United Kingdom. He is celebrated for his exceptional performances in various films, particularly for his portrayal of Batman in the superhero series.

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“For me any moment in front of a crowd is embarrassing, because I can't stand being in front of people. I'm probably one of the worst public speakers. I try to avoid it, but there are times when it's just too rude not to do it. But there really isn't a moment that's not embarrassing for me if I'm going to stand up in front of a crowd.”

People Ifs Trying I Can Moments Worst Fronts Crowds Speakers Rude Embarrassing Because I Can

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“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.”

Ifs Want Persons Young Stuff Smart Clubs Glad Going Out Survived

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“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.”

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“I feel like I'm pretty good but I don't like to toot my own horn, you know. I want to let the work speak for itself and kind of move on to the next thing.”

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“It's tough to make a good movie. I think the bigger the movies are, the worse they are. A lot of big movies make a lot of money and you kind of forget about what they are and they don't really make you think.”

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“You have to treat yourself like a mushroom to some degree, in order to keep on discovering things.”

Order Degrees Treats Discovering Mushrooms Treat Yourself Discovering Things

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“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.”

People Ifs Should Happens Marketing Sincere

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“Basically, it's somebody who got stuck having to interview me who really wants to be a novelist, so they're writing these novellas and I was like, "It's not true, that didn't happen, they just made all that up! Why don't they just go ahead and be a novelist instead of bothering with interviewing me?"”

Want Writing Made Happens Stuck Bother Novelists Interviews

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“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!"”

Want Able Balls Studios Interviews

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“I have a very sissy job, where I go to work and get my hair done, and people do my makeup, and I go and say lines and people spoil me rotten. And everyone has that kind of curiosity of how far can you go, how far can you take it. I think it's always good testing yourself.”

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“Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. As an actor, you're giving it up, you're at the mercy of so many other people.”

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“You have to make an effort to be in an unprotected environment because everyone thinks you're a completely incapable idiot who couldn't possibly brush his teeth without an assistant. You have to make an effort in order to be able to actually experience the country that you're in.”

Thinking Country Able Order Effort Environment Teeth Idiot Incapable Brushes Assistants

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“I would have been very happy just cruising around and enjoying the unexpected. I've never been ambitious.”

Has Beens Enjoy Unexpected Ambitious Very Happy

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“I never, in any city I've ever been in, never remember the names of streets. The longest place I ever lived in was for five years and I didn't know the name of the next street over.”

Knows Years Remember Next Names Cities Five Streets Five Years

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“You get those occasional moments when you're absolutely calm, and you've just done something that would have scared you shitless earlier that day, and you've just done it like it was nothing. I find that very relaxing.”

Done Moments Calm Scared Occasional

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“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.”

Guy Hell Very Good Track Bunch

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

Knows Actors Bad Things Misunderstood Being Misunderstood I Know The Truth

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“Whatever you do, do it completely. Don't do it half-arsed. Do it more than anybody else would.”

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“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.”

Way Two Sitting Mirrors Tables Freak Two Of Us

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“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.”

People Knows Together Scene

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“There's nothing like boxing for getting you in shape.”

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

Persons Wonderful Wonderful Things Trainers

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“I never try to guess what anyone else will take from a movie. Every movie is such a different experience for each and every person. I don't like it when people try telling people what they should take from a movie. You should go see it with fresh eyes and see for themselves.”

People Should Trying Persons Different Eye Different Experiences

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

Careers Planning

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“Dieter Dengler was an amazing man. Who knows what he would've been had he not ever been tested in this way? It's a question that I certainly have myself. What would I be able to do in certain situations? He came out, obviously, looking like a true hero, but he didn't go in looking like that. He was not your typical image of somebody that you would think would be the tough guy who was able to endure. His lighthearted attitude, this sort of dorkiness, and naivete; it ended up being the finest tool for his survival.”

Thinking Knows Men Way Would Be Able Guy Certain Attitude Situation Hero Survival Tough Tools Endure Typical Finest Tested Tough Guy Naivete True Hero Amazing Man

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“I know a lot of other actors that don't like to look at other references to their characters and things. But I like it. I always look at everything, I read all the books. I read Dieter's "Escape from Laos." I watched the documentary again and again and again. I recorded it just to listen to him a lot. I just don't suffer from feeling like I'm getting caught into an imitation. I just feel like I want to steal some good stuff if it's in there.”

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“Research can be interesting, but it can be pointless as well. The realities of making a movie often are not conducive with that. I'm not knocking it. I love doing research myself, but I admit it doesn't always add to the performance.”

Wells Reality Interesting Research Performances Add Pointless Knocking

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“I'm sure you find it fascinating. It's always interesting for everybody to look at people who've been pushed to the brink. You wonder how you would fare with that. Nobody's interested in somebody who doesn't ever really do anything. I don't have a choice in that. I will always go for those kinds of characters. Each one is a separate choice for me, but I think it's fairly natural to find yourself gravitating towards people who have done extraordinary things.”

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

Thinking Feels Enjoy Harder

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“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.”

Thinking Able Actors Can Do Successful Plans Position Amount Planning

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“I ain't the first on the list that people are sending scripts to. I'm very lucky. I've managed to put myself in the position with some directors, who will be calling me directly, and we're working on things and talking about things, but that's on a purely creative level.”

People Firsts Levels Talking Creative Position Calling Lucky Directors Scripts Lists

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“I like being responsible for myself”

Responsible Being Responsible

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“Were all conning ourselves, one way or another, just to get through life.”

Way One Way Conning

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

Understood Blue Cinema Collars Blue Collar Milieu

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“It helps so much being on location. It's like the difference between performing for the rectangle of the camera versus a world being created and then the camera finds things within that. There's a huge difference in that, because what it takes away is performance. You don't feel like performing. You're just kind of doing it. You're existing.”

World Feels Kind Helping Differences Huge Performances Cameras Performing Location Versus Rectangles

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“It's very easy to leave when things go wrong, but to stick around and to basically give life to a town because of everything that it gave you generation after generation after generation, that to me is what defines a true American.”

Giving Easy Generations Towns Sticks When Things Go Wrong

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“I think it's important when you're acting to be as relaxed as possible even if you're doing something intense. You're basically in a state of dynamic relaxation.”

Ifs Thinking Important States Acting Intense Relaxation Relaxed

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

Whole Stories Able Careers Directors Casts Personal Stories

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“After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.”

Firsts Kind Film Found Expectations Burden Modest

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“I chose to tell a personal story. When you tell a movie like this that's as emotionally charged as this is, it's a risk. As one of my great cinematic heroes, Francis Coppola, would say, "If you aren't taking the highest, greatest risk, then why are you a filmmaker?"”

Ifs Stories Risk Hero Highest Filmmaker Cinematic Personal Stories

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

Helping Actors Differences Levels

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“When you do a lot of interviews, you find yourself telling the same stories over and over. After you do it for a whole day, you say, 'Christ, I've said this five times today.' It gets fun when you get so bored you start making it all up.”

Said Whole Stories Today Fun Christ Five Bored Interviews Finding Yourself So Bored

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“I certainly liked performing [Patrick Bateman], but it was because he thinks he's so [bloody] cool and just the [stuff], but is really such a cheesy dork.”

Thinking Stuff Performing Bloody Cheesy Dork

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“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.”

Interesting Bigger Muscles Fascinated Swear Protein Ripped Carbs

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“Personally, I love going to see a film when you can really watch a character. If you've just read some article about who the actor is sleeping with, that's gonna be at the back of your mind all the time while you're watching the film.”

Ifs Mind Character Film Actors Sleep Watches Articles

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

Honor Sam Jackson

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“I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous. But I made sure I got moldings of my old teeth beforehand because I miss them.”

World Made Missing Teeth Dentistry Molding World Famous

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

Taken Similarity

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“For me, I think the harder the shoot, the more I feel like I'm enjoying myself.”

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“I always leave disaster 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.”

People Mean Disaster

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Born: January 30, 1974
Known for: Actor
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