Michael Fassbender Quotes
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My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough'. That became my mantra.
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I definitely think the first works best.
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It's more interesting isn't it, if I've got a hedonistic dark side?
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There's so much going on in the world. There's so much information being thrown at us - so many things are being sold to us, and we're being told how we should appear and how to be more successful, blah, blah, blah. How does that manifest itself? In the pressures, the stress, this need to escape.
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Nobody wants to hear Metallica at lunchtime.
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I quite enjoy the lines on my forehead because they show my life. That’s my history and I like to see that in other people. Like this wrinkle is due to some girl who broke my heart. I don’t want to escape it in any way.
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Some actors might just do one thing, and another actor does another thing. I do an awful lot of preparation with the script, really. What I do is repeat the script, over and over and over again. Through that, it's almost like it seeps into my enamel. I'm reading all the characters, as well as my own. That is where the bulk of my preparation goes into.
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We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?
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If I'm playing a murderer, I don't go out and start murdering people.
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I think that idea of alienation, for whatever reason, is still very prevalent within our society and a lot of people deal with it - most people deal with it at some point in their life unless they're sort of the golden child. I think that's something that we all need to address.
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The actors I looked up to when I was a teenager, they all just disappeared into different characters.
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I'm always interested in trying to investigate different personalities. I want to keep myself guessing and keep the fear element alive, so that I don't get too comfortable.
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Nowadays, especially in big commercial films it's much easier for the audience, and they tend to get spoonfed. It's much more interesting to me, people leave the theater and they start asking themselves questions and find their own moral compass about what these characters have been doing.
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I don't like to plan anything ever because it never seems to work. I'm just really...let's just get this film out and see how this one does.
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There's no point in swanning through and being cool as a breeze in every scene. It's not really that interesting. Even if you're a superhero.
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I remember hearing that the spirit was always next to you, so I would always make room in my bed for the spirit ... I'd make room for the teddy bears, Jesus and me. And then I'd wake up in the morning, and I'd squashed 'em all.
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I take my work seriously but I can't take myself too seriously. I'm in such a crazy privileged position.
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As an audience member, those studio films are fun. I like an adventure tale, and I also like to go see something that has more of a social pulse. I like to keep learning and trying new things. And if the scripts are good, it doesn't really matter.
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We did a lot of that in drama school: intellectualising and maybe justifying your position. 'I am a thinking actor and I have thought this through' - well, just do it. I much prefer the doing aspect.
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If there's friends around, I'll cook. Or if I have a girlfriend. But on my own I kind of fell out of the habit of it, and it's a shame really because I know it's good for me. It's something quite therapeutic.
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For me, addiction comes down to basically where a pattern of behaviour has developed and that pattern of behaviour is becoming a very damaging cycle. It's sort of damaging your relationships, friends or lovers, it's damaging your own personal health and it's damaging for you and your workplace.
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Everyone's crazy anyway. And those who think they aren't, are the ones who are even crazier - because they're in denial.
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People are complicated. Our behavior towards one another is strange. So I like opportunities to investigate that.
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I love to go into a movie and have no idea what's going to happen in it.
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Why does a three-year-old, and it's usually boys, want to drive the tractor or have machinery and be in control of it? I don't know. Why wouldn't you ask to boil a kettle or something? Maybe you would, I dunno.
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As an actor, it's always been good to be working at all.
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I could never swim in the ocean after seeing Jaws.
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Big things have small beginnings.
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We moved to Ireland when I was two and we settled in Killarney, Co Kerry. Where we were living in Germany is very industrial and very grey and my parents wanted to have countryside around for my sister and I to grow up in.
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Any good kitchen should be stocked up in oysters, shouldn't they?
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