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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. "
Michael Fassbender
Position
Seriously
Work
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" 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. "
Michael Fassbender
Tears
Thought
People
" I don't know what's going to happen. I'm flavor of the month at the moment, but somebody else is going to roll around the corner in three months' time. I just want to keep working. I can't stop! "
Michael Fassbender
Moment
Want
Stop
" I'm fairly competitive. "
Michael Fassbender
Fairly
Competitive
" I always approach film as a fan. "
Michael Fassbender
Fan
Always
Approach
" The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really. "
Michael Fassbender
Alive
Had
Influence
" My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough.' That became my mantra. "
Michael Fassbender
Acting
Enough
Say
" 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? "
Michael Fassbender
Silly
Failure
Looking
" When I was four, I just wanted to drive, I collected toy cars. Where does that sort of thing come from? In hindsight you go, 'Oh, liked it because of this.' Maybe it's just the wheel. "
Michael Fassbender
Toy
You
Car
" Magneto has a whole lot of complexity to him. Emotionally, he's coming from a very damaged place. I like the ambivalence of it. I want the audience leaving the theater wondering, asking the questions themselves rather than being spoon-fed like a lot of these super-villain characters. "
Michael Fassbender
Place
Questions
Audience
" It's more interesting isn't it, if I've got a hedonistic dark side? "
Michael Fassbender
Dark Side
Interesting
Side
" I've always been more inclined to go out to work than carry on with academic studies. "
Michael Fassbender
Out
More
Work
" 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. "
Michael Fassbender
Habit
Good
Shame
" 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. "
Michael Fassbender
Good
Learning
New Things
" Any good kitchen should be stocked up in oysters, shouldn't they? "
Michael Fassbender
Good
Any
Kitchen
" 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. "
Michael Fassbender
Stress
Information
Successful
" I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories. "
Michael Fassbender
Like
Keep
Simple
" 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. "
Michael Fassbender
Television
Back
London
" People are complicated. Our behavior towards one another is strange. So I like opportunities to investigate that. "
Michael Fassbender
Opportunities
People
Strange
" 'Hunger' definitely changed my life, in terms of being recognized by filmmakers, since that was very much a filmmakers' film. "
Michael Fassbender
Being
Much
My Life
" 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. "
Michael Fassbender
Know
Control
Drive
" 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. "
Michael Fassbender
Life
Answers
Wrong
" 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. "
Michael Fassbender
Keep
Want
Trying
" You know, it's amazing. I don't even have a car, would you believe it? I had a motorbike and it got stolen last year. So I've got to buy another one of those, I suppose. I can treat myself to that. "
Michael Fassbender
Myself
Car
Believe
" 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
Phone
Two
Pretty
" Even if I'm playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality. "
Michael Fassbender
Playing
Even
Superhero
" 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. "
Michael Fassbender
Thinking
Doing
I Am
" 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. "
Michael Fassbender
Superhero
You
Interesting
" Scratch the surface of what's socially normal. I suppose in some way all of us have something we display to the public and things we feel too ashamed of or uncomfortable with to reveal to other people. "
Michael Fassbender
People
Way
Uncomfortable
" Nobody wants to hear Metallica at lunchtime. "
Michael Fassbender
Nobody
Wants
Metallica
" 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. "
Michael Fassbender
Choices
Good
Saying