Christian Bale movie quotes

“- Ken Miles: You're gonna build a car to beat Ferrari with... a Ford.
- Carroll Shelby: Correct.
- Ken Miles: And how long did they tell you that they need it? Two, three hundred years?
- Carroll Shelby: Ninety days.”
Christian Bale - Ken Miles
Matt Damon - Carroll Shelby

“- Catwoman: You could have gone anywhere, but you came back.
- Batman: So did you.
- Catwoman: Well then I guess we're both suckers.”

Anne Hathaway - Selina
Christian Bale - Bruce Wayne

“A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy's shoulders to let him know that the world hadn't ended.”
Christian Bale - Bruce Wayne

“- Bruce Wayne: Why didn't you just... kill me?
- Bane: You don't fear death... You welcome it. Your punishment must be more severe.
- Bruce Wayne: Torture?
- Bane: Yes. But not of your body... Of your soul.”
Tom Hardy - Bane
Christian Bale - Bruce Wayne

“- Catwoman: My mother warned me about getting into cars with strange men.
- Batman: This isn't a car.”
Anne Hathaway - Selina
Christian Bale - Bruce Wayne

“- George W. Bush: So we gonna do this thing, or what? I mean, is this happening?
- Dick Cheney: I believe... we can make this work.”
Sam Rockwell - George W. Bush
Christian Bale - Dick Cheney

“I'm having a heart attack, you idiot.”
Christian Bale - Dick Cheney

“I can feel your incriminations and your judgment, and I am fine with that. You want to be loved? Go be a movie star. The world is as you find it. You've gotta deal with that reality that there are monsters in this world.”
Christian Bale - Dick Cheney

“I lived in a king's palace, in a cage just like this. I bit, and I scratched, and I spent my entire life fighting. Until one day, I just stopped, and they gave me their trust. Gain their trust, and they'll let you out.”

Christian Bale - Bagheera

“I felt like we had a secret, just the two of us. Like that thing where you just wanna be with one person all the time. You feel like the two of you get something no one else gets.”
Christian Bale - Irving Rosenfeld

“- Russel Blaze: Come work at the mill. There's nothing wrong with working for a living.
- Rodney Baze Jr.: I saw a fucking baby with his fucking head cut off. I saw a fucking pile of feet in the middle of the street, and I had to clean it up. I gave my fucking life for my country. That's not work?”

Christian Bale - Russel Baze
Casey Affleck - Rodney Baze Jr.

“- Captain Joseph J. Blocker: You have never seen the look of war. You have no idea.
- Jeremiah Wilks: No.
- Captain Joseph J. Blocker: No idea what it does to a man. I've killed savages; I've killed plenty of 'em - 'cause that's my fucking job.
- Jeremiah Wilks: And from what I hear, Captain, there was never a man happier in his work.”
Christian Bale - Capt. Joseph J. Blocker
Bill Camp - Jeremiah Wilks

“- Alice Evans: He's a killer, Daniel.
- Dan Evans: Then someone ought to have the decency to bring him to justice.”

Gretchen Mol - Alice Evans
Christian Bale - Dan Evans

“Understand this: When we lay our heads down here, we're all prisoners.”
Christian Bale - Capt. Joseph J. Blocker

“They're some of the best people around and some of the worst people around, just like in any business... they just gesticulate a little bit more.”

Christian Bale

“If I'm not working, I really have nothing to do with it - I'm not hanging out and mixing with film people.”
Christian Bale

“A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying.”
Christian Bale

“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

“What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city?”

Christian Bale

“People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy and I can't do that as Bruce Wayne. As a man, I'm flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed; but as a symbol... as a symbol I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting.”
Christian Bale - Bruce Wayne

“Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.”
Christian Bale

“'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it.”
Christian Bale

“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

“You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.”
Christian Bale

“I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.”
Christian Bale