Michael Fassbender Quotes

The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.

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.

People are complicated. Our behavior towards one another is strange. So I like opportunities to investigate that.

Nobody wants to hear Metallica at lunchtime.

My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough.' That became my mantra.

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.

It's more interesting isn't it, if I've got a hedonistic dark side?

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.

I've always been more inclined to go out to work than carry on with academic studies.

I'm fairly competitive.

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.

I take my work seriously but I can't take myself too seriously. I'm in such a crazy privileged position.

I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.

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.

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.

I don't think peroxide-blond hair is a beneficial look for me.

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!

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.

I always approach film as a fan.

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.

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.

Any good kitchen should be stocked up in oysters, shouldn't they?

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.

'Hunger' definitely changed my life, in terms of being recognized by filmmakers, since that was very much a filmmakers' film.

Even if I'm playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality.