“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.” KnowsWantFeelsKindMovingNextSpeakMy OwnHorns Author:Christian Bale
“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.” IfsKnowsWantFeelsLooksBookCharacterFeelingsSufferingActorsStuffCaughtStealingAgain And AgainImitationDocumentariesLaos Author:Christian Bale
“I think the harder the shoot, the more I feel like I'm enjoying myself.” ThinkingFeelsEnjoyHarder Author:Christian Bale
“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.” WorldFeelsKindHelpingDifferencesHugePerformancesCamerasPerformingLocationVersusRectangles Author:Christian Bale
“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.” PeopleWayWantGivingFeelsTryingWantedAttentionDisappearInvisibleBackgroundsTeenagerDamnFades Author:Christian Bale
“I never want to feel that I'm playing it safe.” WantFeelsSafePlaying It SafePlay Safe Author:Christian Bale
“I don't get it when you get so much openness about the way movies are made, and the special effects and the behind-the-scenes stuff and all of that. I can't help but feel like this reduces it a little bit.” WayFeelsLittlesMadeI CanHelpingStuffBitsBehindsSpecialEffectsSceneLittle BitOpennessBehind The ScenesSpecial Effects Author:Christian Bale
“I've had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I'm trivializing them by using them for a scene in a movie. I don't want to do that. It just makes me feel kind of dirty for having done that.” WantFeelsKindDoneScenePainfulDirtyNaughtyPainful Experiences Author:Christian Bale
