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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

Topics: About Between Character Complete Consumerism Difference Ethics Film Hope Lack Message Obsession People Saying Will

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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.

~Christian Bale

Topics: Essentially Go Going Imagination Just Myself Person Playing Put Shoes Try Whatever I Can

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

~Christian Bale

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'3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason is because, like in most Westerns, you have the very clear-cut bad-guy/good-guy, however, as the movie progresses, you kind of see that it's a very fine line that divides these two.

~Christian Bale

Topics: About After Because Divides Fine Fine Line However Just Kept Kind Like Line Most Movie Reading Reason See Talking Think Thinking Two Very Westerns You I Think

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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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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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If I'm not working, I really have nothing to do with it - I'm not hanging out and mixing with film people. Not that I have anything against film people; they're some of the best people around and some of the worst people around, just like in any business... they just gesticulate a little bit more.

~Christian Bale

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I have a fear of being boring.

~Christian Bale

Topics: Being Boring Fear

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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.

~Christian Bale

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Biography

Nationality: Welsh

Type: Actor

Born: January 30th, 1974

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