Christian Bale
Christian Bale
Christian Charles Philip Baleis an English actor. He has starred in both blockbuster films and smaller projects from independent producers and art houses...
NationalityWelsh
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth30 January 1974
CityHaverfordwest, Wales
movie years acting
I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of acting tricks I've amassed over the years.
want play-safe playing-it-safe
I never want to feel that I'm playing it safe.
father men should-have
There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.
stars character goal
There are movies where actors aren't characters but movie stars, being cool beyond belief throughout the whole movie. That is what it is. And we reveal ourselves when we act, very often without noticing. But if I can manage to do a character without showing anything of myself, then that's the ultimate goal for me. No leakage.
boxing shapes
There's nothing like boxing for getting you in shape.
bored parent routine
And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.
dad influence boring
My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.
done actors speak
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.
opposites ideas people
I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make.
done scared calm
You get those occasional moments when you're absolutely calm, and you've just done something that would have scared you shitless earlier that day, and you've just done it like it was nothing. I find that very relaxing.
track guy hell
What I like about it is that I'm not somebody who's in movies. I'm a guy who's not very good going around the track with a bunch of guys who are a hell of a lot better.
careers planning
Any planning that I have in my career is totally accidental really.
attitude hero men
Dieter Dengler was an amazing man. Who knows what he would've been had he not ever been tested in this way? It's a question that I certainly have myself. What would I be able to do in certain situations? He came out, obviously, looking like a true hero, but he didn't go in looking like that. He was not your typical image of somebody that you would think would be the tough guy who was able to endure. His lighthearted attitude, this sort of dorkiness, and naivete; it ended up being the finest tool for his survival.
fiery love sexier wife
What I love about my wife is that she's a really strong-minded, stubborn, fiery woman. I find that sexier than anything else.