#ch

In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief. ↗

— Christian Bale

#beyond #each #everyday #everyday life #life

Look, I've got incredible pride for my family. I've absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just happily talk about my daughter endlessly. ↗

— Christian Bale

#absolutely #cliche #could #dad #daughter

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

#between #character #complete #consumerism #difference

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

#actor #because #confident #director #everything

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. ↗

— Christian Bale

#between #central #character #comes #differentiate

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#counterfeit #dearly #enough #happiness #how

You see much more of your children once they leave home. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#children #home #leave #more #much

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#heavenly #love #rises #spirit #things

I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#i #imagination #means #people #possible

Now come,” he said. “Does your Alex love you back, or is he a hopeless idiot?” “He loves me,” she said quietly. “But I’m afraid he’ll stop after we marry. He’ll change his mind. He’ll—” “He’ll love you more. Trust me.” “Really?” She was far too somber. “Really.” He had no words to make her smile, and so Gareth tweaked her nose. And she giggled. It had been a long time since he’d laughed. But despite all those years, he still remembered how. What he’d forgotten was the lightness of his soul when he did so. The moment was perfect. ↗

— Courtney Milan

#gareth #laura #proof-by-seduction #change