CHRISTIAN BALE - BALE: 'I'M AN IDEAS THIEF'

BALE: 'I'M AN IDEAS THIEF'

Actor CHRISTIAN BALE is obsessed with researching his movie roles, but he insists he only does it to cut corners and "steal" ideas. The British BATMAN RETURNS star admits doing copious background work beats having to look within for inspiration, even if much of it is "b**locks". He says, "I find that interesting. I think it can be a lot of b**locks and a lot of it ends up being useless. "A lot of great actors also never do it. For me, I just get curious and I wanna know and I wanna steal as much as I can."