Christian Bale Quotes
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?
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
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If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.
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I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.
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If you can be a good example to other people, why not try to be that person? I have a bit of a people pleaser in me, but not so much so that it's out of control.
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The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!
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Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different artists, and I put them in my music, and I put them in my persona and my - they help me form into the artist that I am, so - for people to actually hear that come through the music is exciting.
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
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We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.
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I really loved 'Witches of Eastwick', the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher.
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According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
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I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.
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There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.
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I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'
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I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.
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The childless escape much misery.
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And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers: My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it.
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The South was influential in my life. It helped form who I am. I went to New York out of drama school, and I lived in California.
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The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.
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I feel alive in quiet moments with my son, riding our bikes or watching him line his trains up in a particular order, witnessing how his mind works, hearing him learn a new word. I'm alive in these special moments because I never knew a love like this.
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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?
