Christian Bale movie quotes

“Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.”
Christian Bale

“It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.”
Christian Bale

“It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.”
Christian Bale

“I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.”
Christian Bale

“I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do.”
Christian Bale

“There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable... I simply am not there.”
Christian Bale - Patrick Bateman

“What'd being a Newsie ever give me but a dime a day and a few black eyes? You know, I can't afford to be a kid no more, Dave. For the first time in my life, I got money in my pockets. Real money. Money, you understand? I got more on the way and as soon as I collect, I'm gone, I'm away, all right?”
Christian Bale - Jack Kelly

“- Russel Blaze: Come work at the mill. There's nothing wrong with working for a living.
- Rodney Baze Jr.: Is it working for a living when a carried my best friend's legs under this arm, and the rest of him under this arm?”

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

“- Rosalyn Rosenfeld: We fight and then we fuck, that's our thing.
- Irving Rosenfeld: She was the Picasso of passive-aggressive karate.”

Jennifer Lawrence - Rosalyn Rosenfeld
Christian Bale - Irving Rosenfeld

“You went halfway around the world. You spent a fortune. You did terrible things. Really terrible things, Robert. And all for nothing.”
Christian Bale - Alfred Borden

“- Mandy Slade: I just don't think I have what you're looking for.
- Arthur Stuart: I think you do, actually.
- Mandy Slade: What makes you think so?
- Arthur Stuart: That smile for one thing.”
Toni Collette - Mandy Slade
Christian Bale - Arthur Stuart

“- Waiter: Would you like to hear today's specials?
- Patrick Bateman: Not if you want to keep your spleen.”
Glen Marc Silot - Waiter
Christian Bale - Patrick Bateman

“I ain't never been no hero, Wade. The only battle I seen, we was in retreat. My foot got shot off by one of my own men. You try telling that story to your boy. See how he he looks at you then.”

Christian Bale - Dan Evans

“When you are offered a favor or money, take the favor, not the money. Jesus said that, didn't he?”
Christian Bale - Irving Rosenfeld

“See, sacrifice, Robert. That's the price of a good trick. But you wouldn't know anything about that, would you?”
Christian Bale - Alfred Borden

“I'm like the fucking Vietcong, man, all right? I'm in and I'm out. I was there the whole time. You don't know it, all right? That's the fuckin' art of becoming somebody who people can pin their beliefs and their dreams on.”
Christian Bale - Irving Rosenfeld

“- John Preston: What's the point of your existence?
- Mary O'Brien: To feel. 'Cause you've never done it, you can never know it. But it's as vital as breath. And without it, without love, without anger, without sorrow, breath is just a clock... ticking.”
Christian Bale - John Preston
Emily Watson - Mary O'Brien

“- Denton Van Zan: Coffeyville. It's etched in American history because the outlaw Dalton boys were killed there. Ordinary townsfolk rose up and took 'em down.
- Quinn Abercromby: Maybe you're the Dalton boys.
- Denton Van Zan: No, no... We're the townsfolk.”

Matthew McConaughey - Denton Van Zan
Christian Bale - Quinn Abercromby

“- Dan Evans: Where's the 3:10 to Yuma?
- Train Clerk: Running late, I suppose.
- Ben Wade: Goddamn trains. Never can rely on 'em, huh?”
Christian Bale - Dan Evans
Jason Henning - Train Clerk
Russell Crowe - Ben Wade

“My need to engage in homicidal behaviour on a massive scale cannot be corrected but, uh, I have no other way to fulfill my needs.”
Christian Bale - Patrick Bateman

“- Russel Baze: Hey, how you doing?
- Rodney Baze Sr.: Okay.
- Russel Baze: I'm here.
- Rodney Baze Sr.: That's why I'm okay.”
Christian Bale - Russel Baze
Bingo O'Malley - Rodney Baze Sr.

“- Walter Wade, Jr.: Do you know who my father is?
- John Shaft: No, do you?”
Christian Bale - Walter Wade, Jr.
Samuel L. Jackson - John Shaft

“- Jack Kelly: One thing's for sure, if we don't sell papers, then nobody sells papers. Nobody comes through those gates until they put the price back to where it was.
- David Jacobs: You mean like a strike?
- Jack Kelly: Yeah, like a strike!”
Christian Bale - Jack Kelly
David Moscow - David Jacobs

“- Dan Evans: You're so sure that your crew's comin' to get you?
- Byron McElroy: They're lost without him; like a pack of dogs without a master.”

Christian Bale - Dan Evans
Peter Fonda - Byron McElroy

“Did you ever have to find a way to survive and you knew your choices were bad, but you had to survive?”
Christian Bale - Irving Rosenfeld