Christian Bale Quotes

Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing.

Christian Bale

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• I like films to be complete in their written form.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Like
  • Form
  • Complete

• I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • People
  • Think
  • Muscle

• People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Peace

• The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Life
  • Good
  • True

• The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Great
  • Together
  • Parents

• Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Freedom
  • Mean
  • Mistakes

• I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!

  

  Gail Simmons
  • World
  • Best
  • Beauty

• I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Character

• It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Things
  • Secret
  • Name

• Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Done
  • Remember
  • Body

• Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.

  

  B. Wayne Hughes
  • Family
  • Movie
  • You

• I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.

  

  Owen Benjamin
  • Time
  • Children
  • Dad

• New York City is my favorite city in the world.

  

  Halston Sage
  • World
  • City
  • New York

• A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • People
  • Long
  • Freedom

• Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Speak
  • Silent

• There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy.

  

  Oleg Kulik
  • Work
  • Taken
  • Nothing

• I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Up
  • Childhood
  • Grow

• I kind of hate the fact that people are always trying to put you into a category. I hate walls, and I hate boundaries. I don't like that. I listen to everything.

  

  Brian McKnight
  • People
  • Trying
  • Hate

• But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • You
  • Know
  • Realize

• I'm in awful shape. I'm trying to get in better shape. My girlfriend, she's in good shape. She gives me health tips sometimes, like, 'Hannibal, you're going to die.' Stuff like that.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Trying
  • Health
  • Girlfriend

• I'm a plus-size person, so when I tried to go into the Gap, I used to just walk out of there shaking my head because they have nothing that fits me.

  

  Paula Pell

• Symbols are the language of something invisible spoken in the visible world.

  

  Gertrud von Le Fort
  • World
  • Invisible
  • Symbols

• Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing.

  

  Christian Bale
  • Imagination
  • Shoes