112 Quotes by Michael Fassbender

It’s more interesting isn’t it, if I’ve got a hedonistic dark side?

There’s no point thinking, ‘Well, my life’s certainly worked out, I’ve got all the answers.’ It would be wrong for me to say that I don’t get seduced by certain things. That things don’t become tempting.

What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don’t want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared.

At one point you think, well, it’s funny, I could just be a starving actor. So if somebody were to pull the plug, there’d be no room for complaint.

Scratch the surface of what’s socially normal. I suppose in some way all of us have something we display to the public and things we feel too ashamed of or uncomfortable with to reveal to other people.

For me, addiction comes down to basically where a pattern of behaviour has developed and that pattern of behaviour is becoming a very damaging cycle. It’s sort of damaging your relationships, friends or lovers, it’s damaging your own personal health and it’s damaging for you and your workplace.

I take my work seriously but I can’t take myself too seriously. I’m in such a crazy privileged position.

I love to go into a movie and have no idea what’s going to happen in it.

Sometimes if I stick in a character too much I feel like I might start to get blinkered, because I’m making my decisions too definite.