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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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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

#desperately #doing #dough #getting #i

I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous. ↗

— Christian Bale

#english #famous #i #our #world

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. ↗

— Christian Bale

#along #because #before #comes #different

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

#come #fools #make #mean #ones

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

#best #beyond #doing #environment #exactly

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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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

#comedy #had #i #i think #interest

There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world. ↗

— Christian Bale

#backpack #been #bit #breath #change

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

#bat #bruce #came #characters #comes