Michael Fassbender
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.Collection: Growing Up
You know, when you finish the day, and you finish the scene, you don't get a chance to go back to it. So you wanna make sure that everything is left on the floor.Collection: Chance
When I go the cinema, unfortunately nowadays, especially with the big commercial films, the audience is spoon-fed through the entire experience and they don't have to do any work.Collection: Cinema
It's a difficult thing as an actor not to repeat one's self.Collection: Self
I try my best to find variety in what I'm doing, but there's a lot out there that's the same.Collection: Trying
Being movie director you've got the art department, you've got the actors, you've got the camera department, you've got make-up and hair, and props. You've got your finger in all these pies, and you're making sure that everything cooks at the right temperature.Collection: Art
It's such a terrifying thing when mobs of people get together and persecute foreigners.Collection: People
As an actor, it's always been good to be working at all.Collection: Actors
The actors I looked up to when I was a teenager, they all just disappeared into different characters.Collection: Teenager
We're all curious about a lot of things.Collection: Curious
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.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Character
If you're dealing with heavy topic matter, sometimes it's good to have a lightness going into it because it allows you to be open to possibilities, rather than getting rigidly stuck into a certain mind-set. People are strange. When you break up, sometimes you end up laughing with one another, as opposed to crying. Things in life are unusual, and to find those things, it's best to be relaxed.Collection: Things In Life
It's the worst thing if you're sitting there in the theater, going, "Oh, that's the guy who dates this person and likes to do this in the morning and that in the afternoon." Then you're just watching a brand, as opposed to an actor.Collection: Morning
As an audience member and as an actor I much prefer to find ambiguity.Collection: Actors
I might have been curious about actors' lives when I was growing up. That's human nature.Collection: Growing Up
I definitely think the first works best.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Reading
At one point you think, well, it's funny, I could just be a starving actor... So if somebody were to pull the plug right now, there'd be no room for complaint.Collection: Thinking
I'm not going to talk about my private life with a total stranger, unless I feel like I need to. Why would I? I don't.Collection: Needs
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.Collection: Addiction
I suppose the doctor-patient relationship has that idea of transference. I think it's a special thing that doctors have. We all find doctors sexy. That's why there are so many TV shows about doctors.Collection: Sexy
I think the fact that us as a race still continues to be very tribal and we haven't really moved away from that over hundreds and hundreds of years of experience.Collection: Thinking
If I'm playing a murderer, I don't go out and start murdering people.Collection: People
Sometimes if I stick in a character too much I feel like I might start to get blinkered, because I'm making my decisions too definite.Collection: Character
If you're addicted to gambling, you know where to go to gamble. So, if you have a condition where you're addicted to sex, you know where other that are looking for the same thing are going.Collection: Sex
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.Collection: Fun