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. Michael Fassbender More Quotes by Michael Fassbender More Quotes From Michael Fassbender 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. Michael Fassbender gamble gambling sex 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. Michael Fassbender decision might 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. Michael Fassbender things-in-life laughing people 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 different personality trying 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. Michael Fassbender sexy ideas 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. Michael Fassbender preparation reading character 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. Michael Fassbender actors rooms thinking 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. Michael Fassbender patterns addiction behaviour 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. Michael Fassbender teacher drama school As an audience member and as an actor I much prefer to find ambiguity. Michael Fassbender members ambiguity actors 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 shame girlfriend kind I take my work seriously but I can't take myself too seriously. I'm in such a crazy privileged position. Michael Fassbender privileged position crazy I'm fairly competitive. Michael Fassbender 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. Michael Fassbender guy sitting morning It's more interesting isn't it, if I've got a hedonistic dark side? Michael Fassbender dark sides interesting 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 income acting goal The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really. Michael Fassbender influence alive art I might have been curious about actors' lives when I was growing up. That's human nature. Michael Fassbender growing-up actors might 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 names want 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. Michael Fassbender growing-up parent two
