Christian Bale Quotes About Acting
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I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.
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I never applied to any acting schools. I don't know if that's just bad reporting, or - sometimes I just make stuff up.
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If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest.
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When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things.
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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.
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It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.
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It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.
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I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.
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Suddenly people were saying I was cocky because I'd done a Steven Spielberg movie and thought I was better than everyone else, which surprised me at first. I suddenly started feeling like a freak because everyone was treating me differently. It was confusing, and I did wonder if acting was for me anymore.
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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.
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It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along.
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Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set.
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I have a fear of being boring.
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I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around.
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I become a bit of a blank page in public. And that's precisely why I like acting.
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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.
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An actor should never be larger than the film he's in.
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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.
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I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played. They're all really far from who I am.
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It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.
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There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real life circumstances, would be absolutely unbelievable things to really say, and you would look at these people like they're freaks for conversing that way. But somehow for certain styles of movies, it works, and it seems fine.
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You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.
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