Top 100 Quotes About Bale

#1. 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.

Christian Bale

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#2. Directors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they are.

Christian Bale

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#3. Life is easy. Live it while you're alive.

Because when you're gone you won't have an opportunity.

Scott Hildreth

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#4. I like being responsible for myself

Christian Bale

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#5. I didn't have to look at him to know I'd just lost everything I'd ever wanted because I felt it. I felt the loss seep into bone and tissue. I felt it settle between the cracks in my heart and the empty holes in my soul.

Julie Bale

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#6. I have learned how to plant coastal hay, fertilize and bale it.

Janine Turner

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#7. People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy and I can't do that as Bruce Wayne. As a man I'm flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed, but as a symbol, as a symbol I can be incorruptible. I can be everlasting.

Christian Bale

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#8. I started my career without fans.

Christian Bale

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#9. There have been many times when you spend a number of months and the finished product is not what you wanted to see. And 'Batman Begins' was what I wanted to see.

Christian Bale

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#10. I probably prefer Spanish football to the others. It's very technical, the way they play; they keep the ball well, and whenever Spurs have played against Spanish teams in the past, they've always made it difficult for us.

Gareth Bale

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#11. The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure.

Christian Bale

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#12. I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.

Christian Bale

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#13. We are starting off with our own different characters and our own laws and everything, looking at Bruce Wayne and how he came to be the person that he was and how he comes to be this man that jumps around in the Bat suit.

Christian Bale

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#14. I want to see Toby Maguire fight Christian Bale.

Artie Lange

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#15. Being misunderstood is not a bad thing as an actor. I know the truth.

Christian Bale

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#16. I chose to tell a personal story. When you tell a movie like this that's as emotionally charged as this is, it's a risk. As one of my great cinematic heroes, Francis Coppola, would say, "If you aren't taking the highest, greatest risk, then why are you a filmmaker?"

Christian Bale

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#17. It was a great honor to be called a mo-fo by Sam Jackson.

Christian Bale

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#18. Our ability to accept life's difficult offerings is a testament of our relationship with God.

Scott Hildreth

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#19. I won't kill you but I don't have to save you.

Christian Bale

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#20. 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.

Christian Bale

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#21. The value of a person's life is measured by the amount of people they touch in living it.

Scott Hildreth

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#22. So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that he can say, 'oh yeah - that's a great point.' And you never know; often you can help far more than you think you can, because there's so much more that he's juggling than an actor.

Christian Bale

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#23. I'd say that Spanish football is probably the best I've seen.

Gareth Bale

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#24. My dad's the one who's always been there; he's my hero, you could say. Even when he was working, he'd do anything for me. He's been the biggest influence in my life.

Gareth Bale

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#25. My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.

Christian Bale

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#26. I think there's a limited amount of planning you can do, at least in the position I'm in. Maybe more successful actors can plan more than I'm able to.

Christian Bale

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#27. She was damaged and broken and there wasn't any kind of glue in the world that could fix her.

Julie Bale

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#28. He's lying against a bale of hay and talking to his reindeer. That's odd. No, wait - he is singing to his reindeer. That's even odder.

Elise Allen

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#29. Were all conning ourselves, one way or another, just to get through life.

Christian Bale

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#30. And being as I'm somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I get in the mood for all kinds of movies, and so I like to try each of them.

Christian Bale

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#31. 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.

Christian Bale

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#32. I quite like it when you're working with people and you only get to know them through the scenes that you're doing together.

Christian Bale

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#33. After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.

Christian Bale

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#34. What's fun is watching actors of that calibre bring them to life. It's incredible. Christian Bale spent a day with the character he plays and after my year of being with him I couldn't have generated the same view of him. They have a different way of looking at people, it's fascinating to watch.

Michael Lewis

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#35. It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.

Christian Bale

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#36. I'll find myself having dinner with people and someone will mention something and I will say I was in that situation once. Then I'll say, forget it, it was a scene I was in. That can get to be quite confusing.

Christian Bale

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#37. I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?

Christian Bale

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#38. 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.

Christian Bale

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#39. I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.

Christian Bale

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#40. I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical.

Christian Bale

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#41. You have to treat yourself like a mushroom to some degree, in order to keep on discovering things.

Christian Bale

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#42. I never, in any city I've ever been in, never remember the names of streets. The longest place I ever lived in was for five years and I didn't know the name of the next street over.

Christian Bale

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#43. 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.

Christian Bale

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#44. Everyone always tells you that you're the only one that can do this or that role right, and if you say no, they go to somebody else and tell them that they're the only one that can do it right. But when they're talking to you, you're always the 'Best Actor of Your Generation.'

Christian Bale

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#45. Between 12 and 14, I shot up a ridiculous amount. The muscles were struggling to stretch and grow at the rate my bones were growing. It gave me problems with my back and my hamstrings.

Gareth Bale

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#46. No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day?

Christian Bale

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#47. I seek ... the means to fight injustice. To turn fear against those who prey on the fearful.

Christian Bale

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#48. When I go to Batman movies, I always think, 'Man, I would like to be a bad guy in a Batman movie.' especially as they got darker when they go to the Christian Bale era.

Denis Leary

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#49. For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women, it is a man; and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city.

Honore De Balzac

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#50. The art of survival is a story that never ends.

Christian Bale

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#51. It's very easy to leave when things go wrong, but to stick around and to basically give life to a town because of everything that it gave you generation after generation after generation, that to me is what defines a true American.

Christian Bale

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#52. I never want to feel that I'm playing it safe.

Christian Bale

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#53. I ain't the first on the list that people are sending scripts to. I'm very lucky. I've managed to put myself in the position with some directors, who will be calling me directly, and we're working on things and talking about things, but that's on a purely creative level.

Christian Bale

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#54. Planning a career, I always find that such a tricky thing, because I don't have much of a plan, really.

Christian Bale

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#55. Troo hits the hay every night like a bale falling out of our old barn loft.

Lesley Kagen

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#56. I think La Liga is the best league in the world.

Gareth Bale

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#57. Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

Jamie Redknapp

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#58. I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of that. And I like the commitment that is needed for that.

Christian Bale

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#59. The space reminded me of the small hay-bale clubhouses and scrap-wood tree forts that my brothers and I had made as kids - high up spaces where you could see things differently, where you could get your bearings.

Dee Williams

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#60. I tend to stay in character between scenes ... to be rather serious on set, but here's why, and I think people will find it surprising. I'm one of the worst 'corpses' on a movie set, which means you can't keep a straight face. You start to get the giggles and you can't stop.

Christian Bale

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#61. The only thing I would unequivocally say is that I have never had any interest in romantic comedy I just couldn't do it. I think I'd be terrible.

Christian Bale

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#62. It's tough to make a good movie. I think the bigger the movies are, the worse they are. A lot of big movies make a lot of money and you kind of forget about what they are and they don't really make you think.

Christian Bale

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#63. 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.

Christian Bale

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#64. I'm not really looking forward to wearing a black rubber suit in the summertime in humid Chicago. If you see a pool of sweat through the city, follow it and you will find me.

Christian Bale

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#65. But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn't mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did actually go from 121 right back up to 180, which is way too fast obviously. And that resulted in some doctors visits to get things sorted out.

Christian Bale

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#66. I'm ambitious, I want to play in the Champions League, and that's the aim with Tottenham - to start qualifying for the Champions League on a consistent basis.

Gareth Bale

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#67. What I like about it is that I'm not somebody who's in movies. I'm a guy who's not very good going around the track with a bunch of guys who are a hell of a lot better.

Christian Bale

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#68. Christian Bale has a kind of genetically engineered handsomeness that's perfect for [John Preston]. He's also a better actor than he ever gets credit for being.

Richard Roeper

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#69. 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!"

Christian Bale

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#70. I don't have acknowledged preferences of characters.

Christian Bale

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#71. What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there.

Christian Bale

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#72. How serious can a movie about time-traveling robots be? You want it to be cool and fun.

Christian Bale

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#73. You get those occasional moments when you're absolutely calm, and you've just done something that would have scared you shitless earlier that day, and you've just done it like it was nothing. I find that very relaxing.

Christian Bale

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#74. I have a fear of being boring.

Christian Bale

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#75. I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.

Christian Bale

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#76. You say something bad about Newsies and you have an awful lot of people to answer to.

Christian Bale

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#77. The biggest rebellion I could've ever had with my father would be to work in a bank. He would have disowned me. As long as I was doing something where I didn't have to wear a tie, I was good.

Christian Bale

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#78. Working out is incredibly boring. I swear it's true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer brain cells you have.

Christian Bale

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#79. 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.

Christian Bale

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#80. I think the harder the shoot, the more I feel like I'm enjoying myself.

Christian Bale

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#81. In the end, we choose what we want to believe. We shape the truth to fit our requirements, because otherwise life would be just too hard to bear.

Tom Bale

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#82. 'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it.

Christian Bale

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#83. 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.

Christian Bale

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#84. I always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people's favorite movies. And that's what I like so much, is that you never know. Something intrigues somebody and means nothing to somebody else.

Christian Bale

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#85. 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.

Christian Bale

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#86. In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.

Christian Bale

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#87. sings in the background like a big bale of black coming towards me through moorland mist.

Morrissey

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#88. There are no themes so human as those that reflect the closeness of bliss to bale.

Henry James

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#89. There are occasions when I've pretended to be in a firefight, and then there are people who have really been in a firefight. Clearly it's absolutely ridiculous, and even disrespectful, to suggest that I understand what that is.

Christian Bale

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#90. There seems to be this thing in football where everything has to be ... now!

Gareth Bale

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#91. The interesting thing about a movie is the movie.

Christian Bale

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#92. I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.

Gareth Bale

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#93. 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.

Christian Bale

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#94. Sometimes the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people have got to have their faith rewarded.

Christian Bale

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#95. When I was younger, I had some close friends who always loved European football, and Real Madrid at that time were the dominant force. I remember family holidays when we used to go to Spain, and we'd bring back replica shirts of Real Madrid and pretend to be the players when we played in the park.

Gareth Bale

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#96. I have a very sissy job, where I go to work and get my hair done, and people do my makeup, and I go and say lines and people spoil me rotten. And everyone has that kind of curiosity of how far can you go, how far can you take it. I think it's always good testing yourself.

Christian Bale

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#97. One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p.m. Midnight. Later.

Christian Bale

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#98. And I look on my brain as a mass of hydraulically compacted thoughts, a bale of ideas, and my head as a smooth, shiny Aladdin's lamp.

Bohumil Hrabal

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#99. I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around.

Christian Bale

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#100. I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless I'm getting audited and I'm on the street and I desperately need some dough and that's the only thing that I'm getting.

Christian Bale

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