Famous quotes by Actors

"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

"I never want to feel that I'm playing it safe"

Christian Bale, Actor

"I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical"

Christian Bale, Actor

"But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya"

Christian Bale, Actor

"What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there"

Christian Bale, Actor

"In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron"

Christian Bale, Actor

"If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest"

Christian Bale, Actor

"But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn't mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did actually go from 121 right back up to 180, which is way too fast obviously. And that resulted in some doctors visits to get things sorted out"

Christian Bale, Actor

"You're creating a different world, and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not"

Christian Bale, Actor

"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, Actor

"The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them"

Marlon Brando, Actor

"I'm working myself to death"

Alan Ladd, Actor

"What good will a tax break do me if I'm crippled for life?"

Alan Ladd, Actor

"Strangers still leave me self-conscious"

Alan Ladd, Actor

"It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry"

Alan Ladd, Actor

"I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last"

Alan Ladd, Actor

"I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me"

Alan Ladd, Actor

"I never fail to feel let down when I see myself on the screen"

Alan Ladd, Actor

"I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white"

Alan Ladd, Actor

"It's natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn't have"

Alan Ladd, Actor

"I'm no good with words, but I'll find ways from time to time to show you how grateful I am"

Alan Ladd, Actor

"I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else"

Alan Ladd, Actor

"I still do television. I don't care. I just want to work. I love to work. I want to do 500 movies"

Brion James, Actor

"The bad guys are the best parts"

Brion James, Actor

"I was a different kind of kid, oversensitive and all that"

Brion James, Actor

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