Christian Bale Quotes

A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.

Christian Bale

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• We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • People
  • Doing
  • Turn

• We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Time
  • Process
  • Search

• Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Mediocrity
  • Heroism

• I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Think
  • Strong
  • Know

• Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • People
  • More
  • Questioning

• A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Good
  • Man
  • Advice

• Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Weapons

• It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • First
  • Safety
  • Strive

• You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • You
  • Tired
  • Athlete

• I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Learning
  • Design
  • Build

• I'm very, very used to hearing no - repeatedly! - and through my experience founding startups, I've learned to view those two little letters not as a final roadblock but as a problem to be solved.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Experience
  • Problem
  • View

• The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Believe
  • Truth

• As long as I love Beauty I am young.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Long
  • Love
  • Beauty

• I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Art

• You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Love
  • Respect
  • Treat

• I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Complicated

• Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Win
  • Gold
  • Fans

• I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I think because everything costs so much they're not taking the chances they used to.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Book
  • Think

• If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Reality
  • Me
  • Doubt

• I recently became vegan because I felt that as a Jewish lesbian, I wasn’t part of a small enough minority. So now I’m a Jewish lesbian vegan.

  

  Carol Leifer
  • Small
  • Lesbian
  • Vegan

• I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• Get in theater, really work your craft. Get really, really good so that when people say your name, your name is associated with quality, with integrity.

  

  Freddy Rodriguez
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.

  

  Christian Bale
  • People
  • Attention
  • Teenager