"Nowhere near it, no. But I'm not sure that achieving perfection is really the goal, even though it might feel like that's the goal. I feel like if you try to achieve it, that's more fun, isn't it? That's the challenge," Christian Bale said when he was asked whether he has ever achieved perfection.

"You need a challenge in life that seems insurmountable, to keep yourself excited. And then, of course, there's the question of, 'What is perfection?' It's not like what I do is like a car race, when you know a bend and you can't do that corner any better, it's more abstract than that. I suspect perfection is totally unattainable, but that the trying is what brings us the quality in our lives," he added.