216 Quotes by Christian Bale

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character’s complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism – that’s what I was saying about the difference between the character’s message and the film’s message.

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

It’s about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That’s partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone does unless they pursue roles that are very different from what they’ve done before.

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.