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Christian Bale

(1974) Film Actor United Kingdom

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Christian Bale is a film actor from the United Kingdom, best known for Communist Rape of America : A Traitor's Legacy.

Quick Facts About Christian Bale

Born: January 30, 1974
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Film Actor
Notable works: Communist Rape of America : A Traitor's Legacy
Spouse: Sandra Blažić

About Christian Bale

He has won an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and has been nominated four times for British Academy Film Awards. In 2014 he was among the highest‑paid actors, and The Independent later listed him as one of the greatest actors of the 21st century.

Awards & Honors

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award

Quotes by Christian Bale · Page 3

I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.

Adventure

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

Belief

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

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

Biggest influence

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For me, I think the harder the shoot, the more I feel like I'm enjoying myself.

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It's very easy to leave when things go wrong, but to stick around and to basically give life to a town because…

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What I love about my wife is that she's a really strong-minded, stubborn, fiery woman. I find that sexier than anything else.

Love

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In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me…

Comedies

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I'll find myself having dinner with people and someone will mention something and I will say I was in that situation once.…

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No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done.…

Disappointment

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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…

Acting

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Nuclear apocalypse-who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend…

Actors

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I've had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I'm trivializing them by using them for a scene in…

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I don't like filmmakers to tell people how they should react to their movies. I absolutely have favorites, and I have others…

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You either decide to take the easy way out, which means you're only going to disappoint yourself and everybody else, or you…

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So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that…

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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…

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I'm not an actor that tends to care. I don't ask 'Is this a close up? Is this a master? Is this…

Actor

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I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't…

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Everyone always tells you that you're the only one that can do this or that role right, and if you say no,…

Actor

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There's such ups and downs. You may think that you've kind of found a spot and a groove and it seems to…

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It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them.…

Acting

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I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who…

Actors

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I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of that. And…

Commitment

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You get those occasional moments when you're absolutely calm, and you've just done something that would have scared you shitless earlier that…

Calm

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If something's true and sincere, it happens regardless of marketing. The more I talk about it, the more I'm telling people how…

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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…

Comedy

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I've always felt that I would rather see an actor, writer, or musician's work, rather than actually know the person. If you…

Ability

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All I've ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of crosswords that…

Achievement

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I think there's a limited amount of planning you can do, at least in the position I'm in. Maybe more successful actors…

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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…

Batman

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It's tough to make a good movie. I think the bigger the movies are, the worse they are. A lot of big…

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I want to do good work. I want the opportunity to work with good people, and the only way I'm gonna do…

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If you're doing your job properly, you take the risk of feeling slightly foolish and delve in and bring out the emotions.

Emotion

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I always figure hey, look, I'm not a rock star, I'm an actor. I'm somebody who's meant to be other people and…

Actor

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A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn.…

Attention

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A lot of actors say that theater's the thing for them. And that's great, and I'm not one to speak with any…

Actors

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The blue collar milieu was something that I really understood and resonated with me and I thought was underrepresented in American cinema.

Blue

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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…

Comedy

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I feel like I'm pretty good but I don't like to toot my own horn, you know. I want to let the…

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