Sandra Dodd

"The worst thing in the world to be is a boring example to a child."

Christian Bale, talking about being a father to his young daughter,
quoted in Entertainment Weekly.

The article is good, although it never mentions his role in Henry V,
in which he was great.

His grandfather, the article says, was the stunt double for John
Wayne in Hatari. His dad and grandfather were both pilots (his
grandfather a bomber pilot in WWII). He's an actor, but is taking
his family with him to remote and exotic locations.


When people have asked in the past how to make their homes more
interesting, various suggestions are made, but I think the biggest is
to be more interesTED in things, to pursue more of your own
curiosities, and to find the good and interesting parts of things
instead of inventorying them for their stupid and inferior and boring
parts. We could define lots of things as stupid and boring, but
everytime we do that, we make our worlds smaller, and when our worlds
are smaller, our children's worlds are smaller.

Sandra