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| All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You've said that you will commit to this part, and I just can't live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can. (Christian Bale (1466)) | |
| An actor should never be larger than the film he's in. (Christian Bale (1466)) | |
| And being as I'm somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I get in the mood for all kinds of movies, and so I like to try each of them. (Christian Bale (1466)) | |
| But after having done American Psycho and Shaft, I found it a breath of fresh air to play somebody who's completely human in terms of his emotions. (Christian Bale (1466)) | |
| But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn't mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did actually go from 121 right back up to 180, which is way too fast obviously. And that resulted in some doctors visits to get things sorted out. (Christian Bale (1466)) | |
| 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 (1466)) | |
| I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene. (Christian Bale (1466)) | |
| I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played - they're all really far from who I am. (Christian Bale (1466)) | |
| I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around. (Christian Bale (1466)) | |
| I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway. (Christian Bale (1466)) | |
| I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do. (Christian Bale (1466)) | |
| I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I'm not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I'll just see what happens with it. (Christian Bale (1466)) | |
| I've had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I'm trivializing them by using them for a scene in a movie. I don't want to do that. It just makes me feel kind of dirty for having done that. (Christian Bale (1466)) | |
| If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest. (Christian Bale (1466)) | |
| It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That's partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone does unless they pursue roles that are very different from what they've done before. (Christian Bale (1466)) | |
| It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me. (Christian Bale (1466)) | |
| It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience. (Christian Bale (1466)) | |
| 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. (Christian Bale (1466)) | |
| No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day? (Christian Bale (1466)) | |
| And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you?ve got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime. (Bob Balaban (1466)) | |
| But obviously as television began, it so undercut movies that he was trying to think of a way to combine seeing these special things, and the fact that people were just captivated by the magic box. (Bob Balaban (1466)) | |
| God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too. (Bob Balaban (1466)) | |
| I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game. (Bob Balaban (1466)) | |
| I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often. (Bob Balaban (1466)) | |
| I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting. (Bob Balaban (1466)) | |
| I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see - you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location. (Bob Balaban (1466)) | |
| I produced and directed a movie a couple years ago that won some awards that Samuel Goldwyn released called 'The Last Good Time'. I wrote, produced and directed it, but I wasn't in it. (Bob Balaban (1466)) | |
| I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area. (Bob Balaban (1466)) | |
| I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions. (Bob Balaban (1466)) | |
| I?m from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago. (Bob Balaban (1466)) | |
| I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also - I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening. (Bob Balaban (1466)) | |
| I've directed a fair amount of television series - so I'm always trying to learn new things. One episode was all hand-held and I'm trying to get better at when you should do things and when you should just shut up and watch what the people are saying. (Bob Balaban (1466)) | |
| If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young. (Bob Balaban (1466)) | |
| Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn't know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on. (Bob Balaban (1466)) | |
| My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business. (Bob Balaban (1466)) | |
| My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative. (Bob Balaban (1466)) | |
| My family was loving... they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and basically it wasn't anything dangerous, thank God. (Bob Balaban (1466)) | |
| Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old - I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays. (Bob Balaban (1466)) | |
| People so far have been very fond of the Robert Altman movie, as I am, and when one things goes well it shines light on your other projects and now I seem to have a number of projects that are moving forward. (Bob Balaban (1466)) | |
| Yes I try to do everything I can not to fail hideously. (Bob Balaban (1466)) | |
| 1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too. (Leon Askin (1466)) | |
| A Dumont actor was considered to be too stilted - the way we Dumont actors used to speak. (Leon Askin (1466)) | |
| At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth. (Leon Askin (1466)) | |
| Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him. (Leon Askin (1466)) | |
| Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew. (Leon Askin (1466)) | |
| From that moment on I knew my profession in life was and has remained until today an actor's life. (Leon Askin (1466)) | |
| I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me. (Leon Askin (1466)) | |
| In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it. (Leon Askin (1466)) | |
| It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession. (Leon Askin (1466)) | |
| It was fascinating for me to drive with Lies through the country roads. I also got to know Vienna again by driving through my home town by car. (Leon Askin (1466)) | |
| It was one of the great chances in my life to become a Dumont actor. (Leon Askin (1466)) | |
| My father was an ardent socialist for many years. (Leon Askin (1466)) | |
| The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre. (Leon Askin (1466)) | |
| To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages. (Leon Askin (1466)) | |
| Unfortunately I put the opening date on the 5th of December 1941 and on the 7th of December the Japanese bombarded Pearl Harbour. My dream of a theater in Washington D.C. came to a prompt end. (Leon Askin (1466)) | |
| We wanted to bring the political situation in Austria on stage. Naturally we could not do that without pointing to Austrian's northern neighbor Germany. (Leon Askin (1466)) | |
| A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator. (Steven Berkoff (1466)) | |
| In London, nobody comments on what you wear - they think that's not important to you or your state of well-being. (Steven Berkoff (1466)) | |
| The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers. (Steven Berkoff (1466)) | |
| The mainstream is generally garbage. Look at the heavily subsidized theaters. (Steven Berkoff (1466)) | |
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