Famous quotes by Actors

"So it's kind of nervous to be in this situation, but at the same time you look at all those actors and the work that they've done, I've been in bigger films than all of them and still kept my integrity and still kept my respect"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"Look, you're on the set for six months, with someone who's rooting to be attracted to you, and you're rooting to be attracted to them. I never understood the separation of work and life in that situation. But the time I spent with Megan was our own thing"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"I drink protein shakes nonstop - three or four a day - and I run a lot, so you get rid of the bad carbs and keep the rest so you have the energy to make it through"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"And I'm not a personality; otherwise I'd be coming out with an album, performing on MTV. All that stuff is possible and I can do that tomorrow. I just have no need"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"You can't buy back your respect; you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"My family, my parents are hippies"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth, even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real life circumstances, would be absolutely unbelievable things to really say, and you would look at these people like they're freaks for conversing that way. But somehow for certain styles of movies, it works, and it seems fine"

Christian Bale, Actor

"It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me"

Christian Bale, Actor

"I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around"

Christian Bale, Actor

"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, Actor

"I have a fear of being boring"

Christian Bale, Actor

"I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene"

Christian Bale, Actor

"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, Actor

"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, Actor

"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, Actor

"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, Actor

"All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You've said that you will commit to this part, and I just can't live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can"

Christian Bale, Actor

"A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it, so why even bother?"

Christian Bale, Actor

"'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, Actor

"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, Actor

"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, Actor

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

Christian Bale, Actor

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