Michael Fassbender quotes

I just went off for two months traveling around Europe on a motorcycle and pretty much turned my phone off. I did 5,000 miles with my dad. We went through Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Italy... and then I did Spain and France by myself. (Michael Fassbender)
What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don't want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared. View quote
Michael Fassbender
I don't think peroxide-blond hair is a beneficial look for me. View quote
Michael Fassbender
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. View quote
Michael Fassbender
People are complicated. Our behavior towards one another is strange. So I like opportunities to investigate that. View quote
Michael Fassbender
Everything I put my name to and take part in, I want to be good. That's not saying it will always happen. But I want to make bold choices. View quote
Michael Fassbender
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. View quote
Michael Fassbender
Any good kitchen should be stocked up in oysters, shouldn't they? View quote
Michael Fassbender
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. View quote
Michael Fassbender
I take my work seriously but I can't take myself too seriously. I'm in such a crazy privileged position. View quote
Michael Fassbender
'Hunger' definitely changed my life, in terms of being recognized by filmmakers, since that was very much a filmmakers' film. (Michael Fassbender)
Nobody wants to hear Metallica at lunchtime. View quote
Michael Fassbender
I guess in the independent market, I'd be getting offers, but in terms of big studio films, I still have to audition. I don't think my name is that well-known, I don't have much of a following to guarantee box office success yet. View quote
Michael Fassbender
I always approach film as a fan. View quote
Michael Fassbender
You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from. View quote
Michael Fassbender
I came to Los Angeles and did auditions for television. I made a terrible mess of most of them and I was quite intimidated. I felt very embarrassed and went back to London. I got British television jobs intermittently between the ages of 23 and 27, but it was very patchy. View quote
Michael Fassbender
My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough.' That became my mantra. View quote
Michael Fassbender
The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really. View quote
Michael Fassbender
I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories. View quote
Michael Fassbender
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. View quote
Michael Fassbender
I've always been more inclined to go out to work than carry on with academic studies. (Michael Fassbender)
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. View quote
Michael Fassbender
There's no point thinking, 'Well, my life's certainly worked out, I've got all the answers.' It would be wrong for me to say that I don't get seduced by certain things. That things don't become tempting. View quote
Michael Fassbender
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? View quote
Michael Fassbender
Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed because we all are. When people break up in a script, you think, Oh, right, there must be tears shed here. But maybe the fact of the matter is that they're both laughing. View quote
Michael Fassbender