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I've been in football a long time and one thing you don't do is when things are going well, you don't get carried away. And when they don't, you stay positive.
Chris Coleman
Positive
Time
You
Long
Long Time
Carried
One Thing
Stay
Football
Well
Been
Get
Going
Away
Thing
Things
I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around.
Christian Bale
Good
Good Script
Only
Writer
Around
Sound
Intelligent
Script
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
Me
People
Try
Damn
Teenager
Way
Background
Some
Someone
Gives
Fade
Disappear
Attention
Feel
Invisible
Like
Him
Get
Just
Wanted
Wants
Notice
How serious can a movie about time-traveling robots be? You want it to be cool and fun.
Christian Bale
You
About
Robots
How
Want
Movie
Cool
Fun
Serious
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
Hope
Saying
Character
People
Ethics
Will
Complete
About
Consumerism
Obsession
Between
Message
Lack
Difference
Repulsed
Film
And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.
Christian Bale
You
Parents
Sense
Nine-To-Five
Worst
Worst Thing
Bored
Boring
Only
Being
Aversion
Inherited
Routine
Thing
I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of that. And I like the commitment that is needed for that.
Christian Bale
Commitment
People
Seriously
Insanity
Enjoy
Taking
Stuff
Like
Look
Nonsense
Lot
Needed
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
Life
Me
My Life
Kind
Some
Having
Scene
Dirty
Had
Feel
Like
Makes
Done
Just
Want
Experiences
Movie
Them
Painful
Using
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
Myself
Try
Shoes
Whatever
Imagination
Put
Untrained
Go
Person
Going
Essentially
Just
Playing
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
Time
Myself
You
Obligation
Will
Tough
Giving
Gone
Live
Tough Time
Part
Deadline
Said
Real
Were
Commit
Just
Much
Really
Rebuilding
Muscles
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
Time
Mind
Doctors
Sick
Too
Back
Back Up
Way
Out
Visits
Some
Resulted
Obviously
Sorted
Go
Up
Get
Did
Getting
Short
Which
Fast
Actually
Right
Amount
Enjoyed
Things
Right Back
I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical.
Christian Bale
Good
Me
First
Damn
Damn Thing
Punch
Say
Wearing
Superhero
Onto
Throw
He
Head
Idea
First Of All
Practical
Came
Covering
Up
Times
Ends
Anything
Mean
Cape
Really
Whole
Thing
Treading
Number
So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that he can say, 'oh yeah - that's a great point.' And you never know; often you can help far more than you think you can, because there's so much more that he's juggling than an actor.
Christian Bale
Good
Great
You
Director
Vision
Will
Own
Think
Everything
Say
Able
More
Point
Never
He
Know
Because
Yeah
Juggling
Hear
His
Than
Listen
Confident
Often
Oh
Oh Yeah
Far
Much
Help
Good Director
Actor
I always figure hey, look, I'm not a rock star, I'm an actor. I'm somebody who's meant to be other people and I'm not meant to be here representing myself. I'm happier when I'm presenting myself as other characters.
Christian Bale
Myself
People
Somebody
Other
Hey
Characters
Look
Rock
Always
Rock Star
Representing
Happier
Meant
Meant To Be
Figure
Star
Actor
Here
Presenting
Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark.
Christian Bale
Dark
Misery
Attraction
Go
Intentionally
Certainly
I tend to stay in character between scenes... to be rather serious on set, but here's why, and I think people will find it surprising. I'm one of the worst 'corpses' on a movie set, which means you can't keep a straight face. You start to get the giggles and you can't stop.
Christian Bale
Character
You
People
Will
Face
Think
Corpses
Worst
Giggles
Find
Stay
Rather
Scenes
Tend
Between
Surprising
Get
Stop
Movie
Movie Set
Which
Straight
Means
Serious
Keep
Why
Start
Here
Set
When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things.
Christian Bale
Character
People
Films
Bad
Between
Message
Itself
Often
Central
Separate
Film
Differentiate
Things
Two
I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.
Christian Bale
Life
Own
Life Experiences
About
My Own
Scene
Look
How
Answers
Experiences
Personally
Play
We are starting off with our own different characters and our own laws and everything, looking at Bruce Wayne and how he came to be the person that he was and how he comes to be this man that jumps around in the Bat suit.
Christian Bale
Man
Looking
Own
Bat
Our
Everything
Wayne
Characters
Bruce
Laws
He
Around
How
Came
Off
Jumps
Person
Different
Different Characters
Starting
Suit
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
Fools
Something
Come
Make
Audience
Mean
Themselves
Who
Prepared
Actor
In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.
Christian Bale
Me
Doubt
Older
Enjoy
Those
Kind
More
Tend
Lead
Never
Come
Terms
Comedies
Very
Get
Maybe
Just
Oxymoron
Romantic
Romantic Comedies
Interest
Movies
Much
I never want to feel that I'm playing it safe.
Christian Bale
Never
Feel
Safe
Want
Playing
What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there.
Christian Bale
Man
Hell
Bat
Bit
Kind
Run
City
Dress
Dress-Up
Something
Around
Loose
Got
Up
Decide
Little
Little Bit
I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous.
Christian Bale
World
Our
Dentistry
Famous
English
I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.
Christian Bale
Life
Attitude
People
Become
Living
Seems
End
Up
So Many People
Depending
Your
Theory
Many
Ridiculous
Nuclear apocalypse - who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops.
Christian Bale
You
Somebody
Nice
Top
Pretend
Some
Crops
List
Apocalypse
Who
Grow
Actor
Nuclear
Need
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