Post by wigwambam on Nov 22, 2006 23:39:26 GMT -5
Mmk. Guess I'm really in a Christian Bale mood today. So, cause I'm bored, here's his biography:
Birth name
Christian Charles Philip Bale
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Nickname
Chris
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Height
6' 2" (1.88 m)
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Mini biography
The 10th Anniversary issue of "Entertainment Weekly" crowned Christian Bale as one of the "Top 8 Most Powerful Cult Figures" of the past decade, citing his incredible and legendary cult status on the Internet. EW also calls Bale one of the "Most Creative People in Entertainment" after his brilliant turn as the psychopathic yuppie serial killer in American Psycho (2000). And "Premiere" lauded him as one of the "Hottest Leading Men Under 30". Christian Bale has garnered a huge international audience ever since he wowed critics with his devastating performance in Steven Spielberg's WWII epic Empire of the Sun (1987).
Bale made his professional debut opposite British comedian Rowan Atkinson on the London West End stage. He auditioned with 4000 other kids for the coveted role of James Graham in Spielberg's Empire of the Sun (1987). Bale received a special citation for Best Performance by a Juvenile Actor from the National Board of Review -- an award specially created for his performance in "Empire". In the following decade, Welsh-born Bale has appeared in Shakespeare, dramas and comedies demonstrating a versatility, depth and range that has made him one of the best reviewed actors today and one of the most popular actors on the Internet. Bale is the youngest in a family of 3 older sisters (Erin, Sharon, and Louise Bale).
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IMDb mini-biography by
Harrison Cheung < hcbfc@christianbale.org>
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Spouse
Sibi Blazic (29 January 2000 - present) 1 child
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Trivia
Hand-picked by director/writer Mary Harron and author Bret Easton Ellis to star in American Psycho (2000). Consequently, was noted by the media as the first star of American Psycho (2000), only to lose the part to Leonardo DiCaprio and then win it back again.
Is an excellent horseman and an avid reader.
He trained for 10 weeks in dancing and martial arts for the dance sequences in Newsies (1992) and Swing Kids (1993).
He has an uncanny ear for accents - he has used a different accent for each of his films to date.
Bale was handpicked by Winona Ryder for the coveted role of Laurie (Theodore Laurence) in Little Women (1994).
His father, David Bale, married feminist icon Gloria Steinem on September 3, 2000.
A devoted animal lover, Christian has two dogs [Mojo and Ramone] and three cats [Miriam, Molly, and Lilly], which are all strays that he found.
Christian is active in many organizations, including Ark Trust, Greenpeace, the World Wildlife Foundation, the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, the Redwings Sanctuary, and the Happy Child Mission, and a school for street kids in Rio De Janeiro.
His grandfather doubled for John Wayne in two movies, in Africa.
His first on-screen role was in 1983 at age 9 in a British commercial for Pac-Man cereal.
Born in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire.
He replaced Leonardo DiCaprio for the film American Psycho (2000).
Stepson of feminist author Gloria Steinem
His father, David Bale, died on 30 December 2003, from brain lymphoma at the age of 62.
He was raised in England, Portugal and California.
His great-uncle, Rex Bale, was an actor.
His father was a former commercial pilot.
His mother was a former circus dancer.
He has three sisters: Erin Bale, a musician; Sharon Bale, a computer professional; and Louise Bale, a director/actress - she appeared in Newsies (1992).
His grandfather was a stand-up comic and children's entertainer.
Met his wife through Winona Ryder; she was Ryder's personal assistant.
With Batman Begins (2005), he has become the seventh actor to play Batman/Bruce Wayne in a live-action film.
Dropped an amazing 63 pounds for his role as the emaciated insomniac Trevor Reznik in the film Maquinista, El (2004) with only a single vitamin consultation with a nutritionist to guide him. For the most part, he only ate salads and apples, chewed gum, smoked cigarettes, and drank nonfat lattes.
Considered getting formal acting training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) when he was twenty, but decided to focus on working instead.
Has been in 2 versions of the John Smith/Pocahontas story. He provides the voice of Thomas in Pocahontas (1995) and plays John Rolfe in The New World (2005).
Turned down the opportunity to reprise the role of Patrick Bateman in the Roger Avary-directed The Rules of Attraction (2002).
His wife gave birth to the couple's first child, a girl. The baby was born 27 March, 2005 in Santa Monica, California.
In the "Fresh Air with Terry Gross" radio interview first aired June 13, 2005, he admitted to Gross that because Batman is "such an American icon", he had decided not to perform his promotional interviews for the movie Batman Begins (2005) in his natural mixed Welsh/British accent. He instead spoke to Gross in an almost-inflection less mid-American accent, only revealing his dialectic roots with a few words.
Has 3 older sisters: Erin, Sharon & Louise Bale'
Two of his most famous character's names have a difference of only one letter. Bateman and Batman.
Since a young age he was very ambitious about attending Drama School, and auditioned for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), and the Central School of Speech And Drama at the age of twenty. He was accepted to all, but was convinced by his parents to continue working instead. To this day, he regrets not attending drama school for his personal passion of learning his craft.
Auditioned for the role of Robin/d*¢k Grayson in Batman Forever (1995). About ten years later, he was cast as Batman/Bruce Wayne in Batman Begins (2005).
The nameplate on his trailer for Batman Begins (2005) read "Bruce Wayne" as opposed to Bale's name.
First non-American actor to portray Batman/Bruce Wayne.
Is the youngest actor to portray Batman.
Owned a home he shared with his sister, Louise Bale, in Manhattan Beach.
Before he played Batman in Batman Begins, his sister Louise played Batman's mother in The Death of Batman.
Auditioned for the role of Jack Dawson in Titanic (1997)
Considered for the role of Will Turner in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003).
Is a distant relative to the 19th-Century thespian Lily Langtry.
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Personal quotes
"An actor should never be larger than the film he's in." (Spin, March 96)
On dealing with the resulting media attention of Empire of the Sun (1987) at age 13: "It was horrific. I was almost crying in interviews and running away during press conferences, pretending I was going to the bathroom and just disappearing."
On the sudden fame that resulted afterEmpire of the Sun (1987): "I enjoyed making the film, but I was shocked when I received all the attention when I got home to Bournemouth. Girls were all over me, boys wanted to fight me, and I was being asked to open local fetes when all I wanted to do was ride my BMX bike in the woods. I told my parents I wasn't interested in doing anything again because the attention ruined it."
"I don't want to know about the lives of other actors and I don't want people to know too much about me. If we don't know about the private lives of other actors, that leaves us as clean slates when it comes to playing characters. That's the point, they can create these other characters and I can believe them. I think if you're a good enough actor, that's the way to longevity in the film business. Keep everybody guessing."
"I started my career without fans."
On his 63 pound weight loss for the movie "The Machinist" (_Maquinista, El (2004)_ ): "I had a stupid kind of feeling of invincibility, like, 'I can do it, I can manage it.' I really did feel like I hit this point of enlightenment".
"I always like that. Whenever there's a project where everyone's going, 'Oooooh, it's a bit dodgy,' I always like it. If you actually look at it, there tends not to be anything risky at all. Why did I start acting in the first place? I didn't do it to be mediocre or to please everybody all the time."
"I'd love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I'm in and get a higher profile because of that. I like to think that as long as you continue choosing diverse roles, you can avoid becoming predictable."
"It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience."
On his transformation into Patrick Bateman for American Psycho (2000): "The character is so vain and obsessed with his looks. While the psychology of the character was something that I could perform, you can't fake the physicality. Being English, I tend to enjoy going down to the pub far more than going to the gym, so it was very unnatural for me. I just had to convince myself that I loved it, which was the most difficult thing about playing this part. Working out is incredibly boring. I swear its true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer brain cells you have. I found I had to stop thinking when I was in the gym because if I thought about it, I'd realize how ridiculous it was that I was pumping iron when I could've been out having a drink and a cigarette and enjoying some lunch. I did three hours a day for six weeks with a personal trainer and some time before that. I ate an awful lot during training and then almost nothing during filming."
"The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping and, actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure. I love sleeping so much that I could do it 12 hours a day if I didn't have to turn on the alarm clock...and still, sometimes..."
"Our Batman is centered on the early days. It's an explanation. It's certainly not Batman No. 5. It's a reinvention. We want you to forget there has ever been a Batman before this one."
On Batman Begins (2005): "I've never felt like the Batman character in the films was given as much time as any of the villains. The villains were always the most interesting characters, too. Batman has always been this very bizarre, almost blind character running through the middle of the story. Our film is different."
On Batman Begins (2005), which is in no way a low-budget film: "I contacted them. I heard they were doing some low-budget Batman not aimed at kids and I was tantalized. I had appreciated the Batman movies, but I wasn't really a fan and I didn't know the TV series. But I read some of the graphic novels, and they were very dark and very interesting."
"I spent about three weeks in Chicago last July doing night shoots. It's a great city, but the humidity was tough under the Batsuit. Uh, it got a little bad. It's hot enough in the Batsuit, let alone in the Chicago heat."
"I needed money because I had just bought a house, but I just kept saying, `I really can't do another movie that I know is not going to turn out the way I want it to, and that I have to make a lot of concessions in my head for.'"
"For me, there's a bigger risk trying Batman. Ultimately, the big point was that Chris Nolan [Memento], who you would not expect to be doing that kind of movie, was going to direct it, which is exactly what I was looking for, because you want to do something totally different from the other Batman movies. I always thought there could be a really good movie made about Batman and when I heard that Chris was doing it I thought, `Well, he's not a director that you would expect, therefore you're going to get the unexpected from him.' I think there's a great potential for going very dark with it, it's a fascinating character, very complex psychologically, which I've never seen done. You know, you have the two extremes, which are both very good. You can either go the very camp Adam West TV series thing, which was great in its own way, or you can go more the way of the graphic Dark Knight novels which delve somewhat deeper."
"I had spent weeks staring at the wall in my house out of depression because of things that had gone wrong and the choices I had made. When I read The Machinist, I just went, `Wow! This is perfect.' I was having dreams about the character and I couldn't stop thinking about it. I felt like this one was going to save my arse, and pull me out of the depressed state I had got into."
"I did other things, but my heart was never in it. A lot of actors say that theater's the thing for them. And that's great, and I'm not one to speak with any authority about it because of not having done it properly. For me, movies are what I love."
"At first, I was somewhat hesitant to do the role. I mean, after all, Batman is an icon. But I remember, as clear as day, being at the grocery store the day the movie opened, and this little boy saw me. He couldn't have been more than five years old. He just walked right up to me and hugged me. He hugged me, and I was so moved by it that I hugged him back. Then he looked up at me and said "You're my hero." And in that moment, I knew that not only as an actor that I had done my job, but that I had made the right decision to play Batman. And I've never looked back on my the decision to play Batman since."- On his decision to play Batman
[on playing Batman] "You couldn't pull it off unless you became a beast inside that suit."
"I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around."
"I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous. But I made sure I got moldings of my old teeth beforehand because I miss them."
"I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played- they're all really far from who I am."
"You can't help but find that violence is endlessly fascinating-and I mean true violence, not action-movie violence, just because it is used as the answer to so many problems. We're all taught as kids not to be violent, but you can't help but also see that violence is what works very often. Bullies thrive."
"I think there's a kind of pretentiousness to the idea that serious work is only found in low-budget independent movies-I can't stand that snobbery."
"I like being kept in the dark myself. You know, like mushrooms: Keep 'em in the dark and feed 'em sh*t. See, I think that's an enjoyable vegetable to be."
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This is his bio from IMDb. I love some of his qoutes, so intelligent. Gotta love intelligent hot men. I wonder how he & Cillian got along in Batman....? Hmm. And why do hott men smoke? Why, why, why?! We don't need them to die of lung cancer or something like that!! Oh, & a bit of trivia that's not in this biography(well it's mentioned but not thouroughly explained). Johnny Depp was actually one of the first actors interested in the role or Patrick Bateman in American Psycho & considered for it. However, for director Mary Harron, Christian was the only one for the role. Then Leonardo Dicaprio was interested in the role so Mary said if she couldn't have Christian, she wouldn't do it & so she quit the project. Then, Leo's agents or whomever decided he shouldn't take the role cause of his young fan base. So, Leo declined the offer & Mary came back to the project & got her wish, Christian Bale got the part. That's not the first time Christian & Leo were considered for the same role either. Christian was considered for the role of Jack Dawson in TITANIC, but at the time they had already cast Kate Winslet(whom is English) as Rose & they didn't want their two lead actors to be...the same nationality(or so it's said), so Christian lost the role & it went to Leo Dicaprio.
Birth name
Christian Charles Philip Bale
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Nickname
Chris
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Height
6' 2" (1.88 m)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mini biography
The 10th Anniversary issue of "Entertainment Weekly" crowned Christian Bale as one of the "Top 8 Most Powerful Cult Figures" of the past decade, citing his incredible and legendary cult status on the Internet. EW also calls Bale one of the "Most Creative People in Entertainment" after his brilliant turn as the psychopathic yuppie serial killer in American Psycho (2000). And "Premiere" lauded him as one of the "Hottest Leading Men Under 30". Christian Bale has garnered a huge international audience ever since he wowed critics with his devastating performance in Steven Spielberg's WWII epic Empire of the Sun (1987).
Bale made his professional debut opposite British comedian Rowan Atkinson on the London West End stage. He auditioned with 4000 other kids for the coveted role of James Graham in Spielberg's Empire of the Sun (1987). Bale received a special citation for Best Performance by a Juvenile Actor from the National Board of Review -- an award specially created for his performance in "Empire". In the following decade, Welsh-born Bale has appeared in Shakespeare, dramas and comedies demonstrating a versatility, depth and range that has made him one of the best reviewed actors today and one of the most popular actors on the Internet. Bale is the youngest in a family of 3 older sisters (Erin, Sharon, and Louise Bale).
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
IMDb mini-biography by
Harrison Cheung < hcbfc@christianbale.org>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Spouse
Sibi Blazic (29 January 2000 - present) 1 child
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Trivia
Hand-picked by director/writer Mary Harron and author Bret Easton Ellis to star in American Psycho (2000). Consequently, was noted by the media as the first star of American Psycho (2000), only to lose the part to Leonardo DiCaprio and then win it back again.
Is an excellent horseman and an avid reader.
He trained for 10 weeks in dancing and martial arts for the dance sequences in Newsies (1992) and Swing Kids (1993).
He has an uncanny ear for accents - he has used a different accent for each of his films to date.
Bale was handpicked by Winona Ryder for the coveted role of Laurie (Theodore Laurence) in Little Women (1994).
His father, David Bale, married feminist icon Gloria Steinem on September 3, 2000.
A devoted animal lover, Christian has two dogs [Mojo and Ramone] and three cats [Miriam, Molly, and Lilly], which are all strays that he found.
Christian is active in many organizations, including Ark Trust, Greenpeace, the World Wildlife Foundation, the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, the Redwings Sanctuary, and the Happy Child Mission, and a school for street kids in Rio De Janeiro.
His grandfather doubled for John Wayne in two movies, in Africa.
His first on-screen role was in 1983 at age 9 in a British commercial for Pac-Man cereal.
Born in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire.
He replaced Leonardo DiCaprio for the film American Psycho (2000).
Stepson of feminist author Gloria Steinem
His father, David Bale, died on 30 December 2003, from brain lymphoma at the age of 62.
He was raised in England, Portugal and California.
His great-uncle, Rex Bale, was an actor.
His father was a former commercial pilot.
His mother was a former circus dancer.
He has three sisters: Erin Bale, a musician; Sharon Bale, a computer professional; and Louise Bale, a director/actress - she appeared in Newsies (1992).
His grandfather was a stand-up comic and children's entertainer.
Met his wife through Winona Ryder; she was Ryder's personal assistant.
With Batman Begins (2005), he has become the seventh actor to play Batman/Bruce Wayne in a live-action film.
Dropped an amazing 63 pounds for his role as the emaciated insomniac Trevor Reznik in the film Maquinista, El (2004) with only a single vitamin consultation with a nutritionist to guide him. For the most part, he only ate salads and apples, chewed gum, smoked cigarettes, and drank nonfat lattes.
Considered getting formal acting training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) when he was twenty, but decided to focus on working instead.
Has been in 2 versions of the John Smith/Pocahontas story. He provides the voice of Thomas in Pocahontas (1995) and plays John Rolfe in The New World (2005).
Turned down the opportunity to reprise the role of Patrick Bateman in the Roger Avary-directed The Rules of Attraction (2002).
His wife gave birth to the couple's first child, a girl. The baby was born 27 March, 2005 in Santa Monica, California.
In the "Fresh Air with Terry Gross" radio interview first aired June 13, 2005, he admitted to Gross that because Batman is "such an American icon", he had decided not to perform his promotional interviews for the movie Batman Begins (2005) in his natural mixed Welsh/British accent. He instead spoke to Gross in an almost-inflection less mid-American accent, only revealing his dialectic roots with a few words.
Has 3 older sisters: Erin, Sharon & Louise Bale'
Two of his most famous character's names have a difference of only one letter. Bateman and Batman.
Since a young age he was very ambitious about attending Drama School, and auditioned for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), and the Central School of Speech And Drama at the age of twenty. He was accepted to all, but was convinced by his parents to continue working instead. To this day, he regrets not attending drama school for his personal passion of learning his craft.
Auditioned for the role of Robin/d*¢k Grayson in Batman Forever (1995). About ten years later, he was cast as Batman/Bruce Wayne in Batman Begins (2005).
The nameplate on his trailer for Batman Begins (2005) read "Bruce Wayne" as opposed to Bale's name.
First non-American actor to portray Batman/Bruce Wayne.
Is the youngest actor to portray Batman.
Owned a home he shared with his sister, Louise Bale, in Manhattan Beach.
Before he played Batman in Batman Begins, his sister Louise played Batman's mother in The Death of Batman.
Auditioned for the role of Jack Dawson in Titanic (1997)
Considered for the role of Will Turner in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003).
Is a distant relative to the 19th-Century thespian Lily Langtry.
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Personal quotes
"An actor should never be larger than the film he's in." (Spin, March 96)
On dealing with the resulting media attention of Empire of the Sun (1987) at age 13: "It was horrific. I was almost crying in interviews and running away during press conferences, pretending I was going to the bathroom and just disappearing."
On the sudden fame that resulted afterEmpire of the Sun (1987): "I enjoyed making the film, but I was shocked when I received all the attention when I got home to Bournemouth. Girls were all over me, boys wanted to fight me, and I was being asked to open local fetes when all I wanted to do was ride my BMX bike in the woods. I told my parents I wasn't interested in doing anything again because the attention ruined it."
"I don't want to know about the lives of other actors and I don't want people to know too much about me. If we don't know about the private lives of other actors, that leaves us as clean slates when it comes to playing characters. That's the point, they can create these other characters and I can believe them. I think if you're a good enough actor, that's the way to longevity in the film business. Keep everybody guessing."
"I started my career without fans."
On his 63 pound weight loss for the movie "The Machinist" (_Maquinista, El (2004)_ ): "I had a stupid kind of feeling of invincibility, like, 'I can do it, I can manage it.' I really did feel like I hit this point of enlightenment".
"I always like that. Whenever there's a project where everyone's going, 'Oooooh, it's a bit dodgy,' I always like it. If you actually look at it, there tends not to be anything risky at all. Why did I start acting in the first place? I didn't do it to be mediocre or to please everybody all the time."
"I'd love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I'm in and get a higher profile because of that. I like to think that as long as you continue choosing diverse roles, you can avoid becoming predictable."
"It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience."
On his transformation into Patrick Bateman for American Psycho (2000): "The character is so vain and obsessed with his looks. While the psychology of the character was something that I could perform, you can't fake the physicality. Being English, I tend to enjoy going down to the pub far more than going to the gym, so it was very unnatural for me. I just had to convince myself that I loved it, which was the most difficult thing about playing this part. Working out is incredibly boring. I swear its true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer brain cells you have. I found I had to stop thinking when I was in the gym because if I thought about it, I'd realize how ridiculous it was that I was pumping iron when I could've been out having a drink and a cigarette and enjoying some lunch. I did three hours a day for six weeks with a personal trainer and some time before that. I ate an awful lot during training and then almost nothing during filming."
"The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping and, actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure. I love sleeping so much that I could do it 12 hours a day if I didn't have to turn on the alarm clock...and still, sometimes..."
"Our Batman is centered on the early days. It's an explanation. It's certainly not Batman No. 5. It's a reinvention. We want you to forget there has ever been a Batman before this one."
On Batman Begins (2005): "I've never felt like the Batman character in the films was given as much time as any of the villains. The villains were always the most interesting characters, too. Batman has always been this very bizarre, almost blind character running through the middle of the story. Our film is different."
On Batman Begins (2005), which is in no way a low-budget film: "I contacted them. I heard they were doing some low-budget Batman not aimed at kids and I was tantalized. I had appreciated the Batman movies, but I wasn't really a fan and I didn't know the TV series. But I read some of the graphic novels, and they were very dark and very interesting."
"I spent about three weeks in Chicago last July doing night shoots. It's a great city, but the humidity was tough under the Batsuit. Uh, it got a little bad. It's hot enough in the Batsuit, let alone in the Chicago heat."
"I needed money because I had just bought a house, but I just kept saying, `I really can't do another movie that I know is not going to turn out the way I want it to, and that I have to make a lot of concessions in my head for.'"
"For me, there's a bigger risk trying Batman. Ultimately, the big point was that Chris Nolan [Memento], who you would not expect to be doing that kind of movie, was going to direct it, which is exactly what I was looking for, because you want to do something totally different from the other Batman movies. I always thought there could be a really good movie made about Batman and when I heard that Chris was doing it I thought, `Well, he's not a director that you would expect, therefore you're going to get the unexpected from him.' I think there's a great potential for going very dark with it, it's a fascinating character, very complex psychologically, which I've never seen done. You know, you have the two extremes, which are both very good. You can either go the very camp Adam West TV series thing, which was great in its own way, or you can go more the way of the graphic Dark Knight novels which delve somewhat deeper."
"I had spent weeks staring at the wall in my house out of depression because of things that had gone wrong and the choices I had made. When I read The Machinist, I just went, `Wow! This is perfect.' I was having dreams about the character and I couldn't stop thinking about it. I felt like this one was going to save my arse, and pull me out of the depressed state I had got into."
"I did other things, but my heart was never in it. A lot of actors say that theater's the thing for them. And that's great, and I'm not one to speak with any authority about it because of not having done it properly. For me, movies are what I love."
"At first, I was somewhat hesitant to do the role. I mean, after all, Batman is an icon. But I remember, as clear as day, being at the grocery store the day the movie opened, and this little boy saw me. He couldn't have been more than five years old. He just walked right up to me and hugged me. He hugged me, and I was so moved by it that I hugged him back. Then he looked up at me and said "You're my hero." And in that moment, I knew that not only as an actor that I had done my job, but that I had made the right decision to play Batman. And I've never looked back on my the decision to play Batman since."- On his decision to play Batman
[on playing Batman] "You couldn't pull it off unless you became a beast inside that suit."
"I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around."
"I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous. But I made sure I got moldings of my old teeth beforehand because I miss them."
"I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played- they're all really far from who I am."
"You can't help but find that violence is endlessly fascinating-and I mean true violence, not action-movie violence, just because it is used as the answer to so many problems. We're all taught as kids not to be violent, but you can't help but also see that violence is what works very often. Bullies thrive."
"I think there's a kind of pretentiousness to the idea that serious work is only found in low-budget independent movies-I can't stand that snobbery."
"I like being kept in the dark myself. You know, like mushrooms: Keep 'em in the dark and feed 'em sh*t. See, I think that's an enjoyable vegetable to be."
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This is his bio from IMDb. I love some of his qoutes, so intelligent. Gotta love intelligent hot men. I wonder how he & Cillian got along in Batman....? Hmm. And why do hott men smoke? Why, why, why?! We don't need them to die of lung cancer or something like that!! Oh, & a bit of trivia that's not in this biography(well it's mentioned but not thouroughly explained). Johnny Depp was actually one of the first actors interested in the role or Patrick Bateman in American Psycho & considered for it. However, for director Mary Harron, Christian was the only one for the role. Then Leonardo Dicaprio was interested in the role so Mary said if she couldn't have Christian, she wouldn't do it & so she quit the project. Then, Leo's agents or whomever decided he shouldn't take the role cause of his young fan base. So, Leo declined the offer & Mary came back to the project & got her wish, Christian Bale got the part. That's not the first time Christian & Leo were considered for the same role either. Christian was considered for the role of Jack Dawson in TITANIC, but at the time they had already cast Kate Winslet(whom is English) as Rose & they didn't want their two lead actors to be...the same nationality(or so it's said), so Christian lost the role & it went to Leo Dicaprio.
