Christian Bale Quotes

To this day I do not believe I'm great at anything.

A lot of people don't realize it, but I've a lot less success than I've have had success.

I'm actually a very bad surfer, which is good because everybody likes a bad surfer. Nobody likes a good surfer.

It's funny, because I never think of myself as Little Miss All-Together.

Apparently, I don't want to take myself too seriously.

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

I am not super-ambitious. I am not a classically amazing singer or anything.

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

I got to star in my own movies. I even had my name above the title in some cases. But what am I known for? My bit part.

Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.

I am literally smaller than life. I am an unextraordinary-looking person. I've seen people trying to hide their disappointment when they meet me, and I have to watch them get over it.

I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack.

I don't feel like what I've done are 'accomplishments.'

I'm very, very modest.

Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.

I don't think anyone's ever accused me of too much self-love.

I never expected to be anybody important.

I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously; I find that a very tedious attitude.

I never said I was a genius.

I'm about as big a star as the Baha'i faith has got, which is pretty pathetic.

He [Clement Attlee] is a modest little man with much to be modest about.

What would anyone want to write about me for? I'm just an old lady.

Trust me: if I had something interesting to say about myself, I would.

I'm an idiot who won the Literature Nobel Prize.

I was a pretty mediocre player.