“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.” IfsWantPersonsYoungStuffSmartClubsGladGoing OutSurvived Author:Christian Bale
“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.” PeopleWayWantOpportunityCommitGood PeopleGood Work Author:Christian Bale
“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
“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?"” WantWritingMadeHappensStuckBotherNovelistsInterviews Author:Christian Bale
“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!"” WantAbleBallsStudiosInterviews 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
“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
“How serious can a movie about time-traveling robots be? You want it to be cool and fun.” WantActorsFunSeriousMovieBe YouTime TravelRobotsBeing Cool Author:Christian Bale
“I never want to feel that I'm playing it safe.” WantFeelsSafePlaying It SafePlay Safe Author:Christian Bale
“A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it, so why even bother?” PeopleWantTryingLooksPersonsDesireActorsStarsResponsibilityFailingBotherMovieMovie Star Author:Christian Bale
“I'd love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I'm in and get a higher profile because of that. I like to think that as long as you continue choosing diverse roles, you can avoid becoming predictable.” PeopleThinkingWantLongStillsSecretRolesBecomingHigherDiversePredictableProfile Author:Christian Bale
“I've always believed that the director does whatever the hell he wants. That's what you sign on for as an actor - I can't stand it when you have actors who are trying to leverage directors into doing things they don't want to do.” WantTryingDoeI CanActorsHellDirectors Author:Christian Bale
“I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make.” PeopleWantKindTermUnpredictable Author:Christian Bale
“I don't want to know about the lives of other actors and I don't want people to know too much about me. If we don't know about the private lives of other actors, that leaves us as clean slates when it comes to playing characters. That's the point, they can create these other characters and I can believe them. I think if you're a good enough actor, that's the way to longevity in the film business. Keep everybody guessing.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayWantBelieveI CanEnoughCharacterFilmActorsToo MuchCleanGood EnoughLongevityPrivate LifeLives Of OthersGuessingSlateClean Slate 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
“I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I'm not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I'll just see what happens with it.” ThinkingWantYearsLooksHappensPastOver ItBackwards Author:Christian Bale
“I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make.” PeopleWantKindIdeasFactsTurnsTermOppositesUnpredictable Author:Christian Bale
