Christian Bale Quotes

Rather than wait to be discovered, discover yourself. Whatever it is that you intend to do later, start doing it now, get good at it, and show people what you've done. Actions speak louder than words.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.

If I read something great and I want to go after it, I go after it. You don't wait to see what Hollywood wants to do with you. You decide what you want to do. I don't mind fighting when I really want something.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope.

One of the biggest mistakes girls can make concerning their romantic life is sitting around waiting for their prince to find them, rather than getting out there and finding him themselves.

We must not wait for things to come, believing that they are decided by irrescindable destiny. If we want it, we must do something about it.

I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.

When faced with a decision, many people say they are waiting for God. But I understand, in most cases, God is waiting for me.

I'm gonna hunt my life down and grab it.

I've never been a passive person. I've always felt that, if you think something should be changed, it's your responsibility to actively pursue that change.

You have to constantly be doing something and not just wait for someone to call you with an opportunity, you have to develop your own projects.

Stop asking, start doing.

OPPORTUNITY is not "knocking." It is pounding on your door.

The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!

The future is not to be forecast, but created.

I think I've always been a follow-the-leader with my career, or maybe waiting for things to happen. Now I'm like, I'm OK-I know the direction, whoever's on board can go with me.

It's not the dreaming, it's the doing.

Don't wait till you're older, or in some better job than you have now. Don't wait for anything. Don't wait till some magical...idea drops into your lap. That's not where ideas come from. Go looking for an idea and it'll show up. Begin now.

We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.

Why I'm so stimulated by [producing] is it becomes more proactive. Instead of waiting around for a script to come in, or some movie trying to go. You're waiting around always for that opportunity, which is great, but I like to be a little bit more proactive. I'm a very action-oriented guy - I'm a doer. The company really became this spearhead for that sort of attitude, and so that, to me, was the most exciting part of it.

Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.

Now I know that, from this point on, we'll be the ones doing the chasing. And Iike it.

It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others. We can so easily wait to be chosen. Such passivity invites despair. To remain healthy and vital, artists must stay proactive in their own behalf.