"I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I'm not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I'll just see what happens with it."

Past, Thinking, Want, Years

48

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I'm not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I'll just see what happens with it."

Exlpore more Past quotes

"Don't be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing chapters that you have read."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

Past, Letting Go

"The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet."

Cyril Connolly, English Journalist

Past,

"Past is aipsom if you learned from the past."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Past, Learning, Growth, Reflection

"Maybe, it is easier to forget the past,than to overcome the pain caused by it.Maybe, it is one of some other reasons,why men forget their prehuman ancestor."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Past, Memory, Regret, Truth, Wisdom

"The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens."

Boyle Roche, Irish Politician

Past,

"Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it."

Marianne Williamson, American Author

Past,

"In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made."

Robert Wyatt, English Musician

Past,

"Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?"

Newt Gingrich, American Politician

Past,

"I appeared on a show with Jonathan Harris on it-the Bill Dana show-even before Lost In Space. Someone gave me a tape of it in the past year, but in all these years we hadn't remembered."

Mark Goddard, American Actor

Past, Space, Years

"Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?"

Camille Paglia, American Author

Past, Rome

Explore more quotes by Christian Bale

"I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?"

Movies

"But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn't mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did actually go from 121 right back up to 180, which is way too fast obviously. And that resulted in some doctors visits to get things sorted out."

Time

"I never want to feel that I'm playing it safe."

Want

"All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You've said that you will commit to this part, and I just can't live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can."

Time

"If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest."

Life

"I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around."

Sound

"It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That's partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone does unless they pursue roles that are very different from what they've done before."

Waiting

"Nuclear apocalypse - who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops."

Actor

"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."

Life

"I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous."

Language