Christian Bale Quotes
My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
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My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.
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I wanted to greet people in Telugu, so I asked someone how to say 'How are you' in Telugu. In fact, I instructed my entire staff to speak to me only in Telugu. So, there were times when I would ask them to translate certain words for me in Hindi, but the effort paid off.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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I'm the girl who will show up in jeans no matter what - but the jeans can get fancier and fancier.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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I've been around the bend in corporations.
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And Israel is not only our ally; it is a beacon of what democracy can and should mean… If the people of the Middle East are not sure what democracy means, let them look to Israel.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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What was so amazing and inspiring about 'GoodFellas' was that it showed the foot soldiers; the people more at the bottom as opposed to focusing on the godfathers and the guys at the top.
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Asians ... put more emphasis on order, stability, hierarchy, family and self-discipline than Westerners do.
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As more people live longer, we can expect there to be additional costs for society.
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My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.
