Christian Bale Quotes

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

You gotta stick your neck out and put out a record that isn't safe... that's the Green Day way!

I like doing things that people wouldn't necessarily think I can do.

I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

I love doing things that people don't expect.

I love doing things people don't expect.

All I really want to do is things I haven't done. 'I'm gonna put a paper bag on my head and be on the cover of 'Billboard,' see what I can get away with - if they'll let me.' And they let me. And I am literally giggling inside for, like, a month that I got away with it.

I've always been interested in kind of doing the thing that you weren't necessarily recommended to do.

You may confuse a lot of people when going against the grain of conventional thinking, and that's perfectly okay. As an entrepreneur, standing up for your vision to your family and friends might possibly be the best practice you will get for the life that awaits you.

I have never tried to bind myself in some kind of an image on screen. I have always tried to do different things.

It is difficult to be that band that doesn't do things the way other bands do it. It's a blessing and a curse.

I don't know what genre out there that I would be afraid to do. If I am afraid to do it, that's not my cup of tea. It ain't much that's not my cup of tea.

The great fear I've had to overcome is the fear of failure. You have to be willing to be afraid, if you're going to be an artist.

Sometimes, I'll hear from other writers or folks in the publishing industry that my books are rule-breakers, which I take as a compliment.

I'm at the point now where I know I'm doing something right when a movie gets mixed reviews, because then I'm not in the box. I don't want to make it too easy for people and I don't want to make it too easy for myself. I want to try something unusual.

I love actresses who are brave and don't do what's expected of them or don't play off how they look or take risks.

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.

We need the disruption of categories that lead us to abandon the difficult, the disagreeable, and the least likely to go very far.

I take chances. I don't limit myself. I don't think anybody who listens to Boston would have predicted hearing a female rapper on the beginning of the song 'Sail Away.' But that's what fit.

I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write.

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

I just like surprising people. I never want to get to a place where people see that I am in a movie and they go see the movie and they expect a certain performance one way or the other. That is just inherently boring to me.

If a musician dares to get out of the box he's been put in, people get confused. They want people where they can find them! I am fortunate in some respects as I've always been known as someone who 'moves around' and tries different things. But generally, we are supposed to stay where we're put.

Don't listen to the prevailing majority points of view. If you have new ideas, push them.