Christian Bale Quotes
I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.
Quotes to Explore
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
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Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
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I don't drink tea or coffee. I'm like a child: I like fruit juices and sodas and creamy hot chocolate.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
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What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.
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My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.
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Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.
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Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
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I used to hate stilettos. It took me a lot of time to understand how to walk in them and look graceful. And eventually, you realise their importance.
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The chief advantage that would result from the establishment of Socialism is, undoubtedly, the fact that Socialism would relieve us from that sordid necessity of living for others which, in the present condition of things, presses so hardly upon almost everybody. In fact, scarcely any one at all escapes.
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When it comes to staying myself - my career isn't my life, it doesn't come home with me. So it's a piece of piss staying grounded and not being changed by it. The same things I've always liked still satisfy me. My team's the same and my group of friends are the same. Of course I'm bowled over by people's response to 21, and when I meet artists I love, it blows my mind. But it baffles me as well. I go home and my best friend laughs at me, rather than going to a celebrity-studded party to rub shoulders with people who know me but who I don't know. I'm Z-list when it comes to that sh**.
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Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours-ambition is the serious business of life.
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When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.
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I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.
