Christian Bale

Christian Charles Philip Bale (born January 30, 1974) is a Welsh-born English actor.

I acted like a punk. I was out of order beyond belief. I make no excuses for it.

Quotes

• Batman is his hidden, demonic rage-filled side. The creature Batman creates is an absolutely sincere creature and one that he has to control but does so in a very haphazard way. He's capable of enacting violence – and to kill – so he's constantly having to rein himself in.
  • "Bale on Batman", The Arizona Republic, 10 June 2005.

• I acted like a punk. I was out of order beyond belief. I make no excuses for it.
  • As quoted in "Actor Bale speaks out over rant", BBC News (6 February 2009).

Quotes about Bale

• I think Batman is a pretty universal character. I remember him as a child. But I think Christian [Bale] did the best I’ve seen so far, because of that tortured background of loss. The original Batman, they’re not much remembered as a Batman character – they were not used for training [chuckles]. You had to really – there was a darkness and a damagedness about his character that I think they got right with Christian Bale. Especially in the last two. But that doesn’t have anything to do with Ben Affleck. I think he’s willing to take risks. He seems to be.
  • Michael Ironside in “TR Interview: Michael Ironside on Extraterrestrial, Batman, Dune, The Omega Code and More”, by Luke Y. Thompson, Topless Robot, (November 21, 2014)

• The ultimate embodiment of Bruce Wayne. He has exactly the balance of darkness and light that we were looking for.
  • Christopher Nolan, On Christian Bale playing the lead role in Batman Begins, in StudioBriefing (12 September 2003)