Christian Bale Quotations | Page 2

It's a wonderful thing when your trainer is actually the person you're playing.

I quite like it when you're working with people and you only get to know them through the scenes that you're doing together.

What I like about it is that I'm not somebody who's in movies. I'm a guy who's not very good going around the track with a bunch of guys who are a hell of a lot better.

Being misunderstood is not a bad thing as an actor. I know the truth.

I want to be able to just act and never do any interview, but I don't have the balls to stand up to the studio and say, "I'm never doing another interview in my life!"

The blue collar milieu was something that I really understood and resonated with me and I thought was underrepresented in American cinema.

I want to do good work. I want the opportunity to work with good people, and the only way I'm gonna do that is to commit 110% - you get out what you put in.

I feel like I'm pretty good but I don't like to toot my own horn, you know. I want to let the work speak for itself and kind of move on to the next thing.

It's tough to make a good movie. I think the bigger the movies are, the worse they are. A lot of big movies make a lot of money and you kind of forget about what they are and they don't really make you think.

You have to treat yourself like a mushroom to some degree, in order to keep on discovering things.