Christian Bale Quotes

I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.

I've never worked with an acting coach, no.

I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.

I want to continue growing as an actress. There are ways that I can reach quicker, or deeper, with acting.

I think actor is one of those jobs where you don't stop learning, even if you have a career longer than my little five years! You're meeting new people all the time, so you might as well just be a sponge and take everybody's input and style as a bit of a lesson.

I would like to go on that path of evolving into a better actor.

I'm just trying to keep my head above water as I learn how to act. I feel like I have so much to learn, it's insane. The only thing I know is that I don't know or have a grasp on anything other than this one thing that's within me, whatever that is, so I'm just trying to trust that.

I've been in front of the camera a million times as a musician, and even directed a few music videos. So, I know a lot about spacing, focus, blocking, etcetera. So, acting isn't totally new for me. Still, I find it fascinating, because you actually get to be another person.

My goal as an actor is to grow and try different things.

As an actor, you learn, every time you work.

I want to be an actor who always tries the best regardless of roles.

There are two kinds of actors -- one sits in a dressing room waiting for his call and the other gets out into the business and polishes his craft by absorbing everything. I don't know enough, I'll never learn everything I need to learn. When a guy thinks he's already learned it, he can only go backwards.

I really do think that if you're doing your job right, you're never gonna be what the other actor was, but you can be influenced by his intelligence and his choices.

Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.

As actors we're always trying to use our creative imagination.

If I want to do the kind of work that I like to act in, I need to open my mind to it.

As an actress I really like exploring and doing new experiences.

I just feel my way through. If I had to give an acting class, I wouldn't know what to do.

I think acting for sure takes a lot of dedication, especially when you're starting out, because it's so much rejection and it's so important to really study and know your craft.

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can go your whole life if you stay current and you stay fresh.

A career in acting, it's a learning process.

Acting is kind of brutal.

One of the joys of being an actor is that you're always learning new things. And I've been doing this since I was 19, so there's been a lot of new things I have learned for each part. I always assume that I can do it.

I think in every character there are aspects of yourself that you bring to it. But then it would be really boring to just play yourself.

I started doing roles and working with people that I really respected and became passionate about the art form of acting. And I'm still trying to figure it out. Still learning.