Bale Speaks, Doesn’t Kill A Ho In The Process
My Celluloid God whores~it~up in the June issue of Esquire magazine in which he speaks about his horrible temper, which I believe is simply an extension of his passion:
ON HIS COOL FACTOR:
“I’ve never been laid back and cool at all. I always expend a lot of energy and get very hot over things.”
ON HIS TERMINATOR: SALVATION BLOW~UP:
“It’s not excusable what I did. I went way overboard. A lot of it was to do with the scene we were doing and stupid as it may sound to a lot of people, my character was going through a great deal in that particular scene. The person on the receiving end is a grown man. Believe me, he really wasn’t fazed by it.”
“Like I said, I had it coming. It should never have been recorded. It was recorded for jollies. But I’m not trying to cover up. So there’s not embarrassment in that I wanted to keep it hidden. I’d done it in front of a whole lot of people. I take full responsibility for it. I’ve never said anything different. I’m not blaming it on anything. I took it a bit too far.”
ON POPPIN’~OFF ON HIS MOTHER AND SISTER LAST JULY:
“I just think it’s a family matter. That’s the end of it. I will not take part in this gossip nation, you know?”
ON THE MEDIA COVERAGE OF HEATH’S DEATH:
“I paid no attention to it. I knew him, I knew the family and why the hell would I sit there listening to idiots who don’t know anything at all? I literally didn’t read anything, didn’t watch anything [after he died]. If I happened to be watching anything that came on, I switched over straightaway. It’s incredible the way the voyeuristic outlook is accepted as news.”
“Many times I’ll work with actors and I can tell they’re thinking, “What are you doing? Why are you going that far with it?” or “You’re nuts!” With Heath, I could feel him going, “I love it!” It felt like we were really pushing each other on, to the limits of where you can go with it. He was a good guy. There’s not a lot of actors who I stay in touch with. But Heath was one of them.”
