After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make.
Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.
Broadway is wonderful and exciting, and I love that as well, but this was the first time I'd been in the West End. It was a great honour.
Good judgement comes from experience. Sometimes, experience comes from bad judgement.
Hopefully, that people could see a progression in my performances because that's how it's always felt to me.
How do I feel about being a star now? Well I still try to live life and enjoy what I am doing.
I can promote until I am blue in the face, but ultimately nobody knows what makes a hit.
I don't think of myself as offbeat and weird. As a kid, I saw myself as the type of guy who would run into a burning building to save the baby.
I don't want to play a boring, bland heroic guy. I want to play somebody that can be a hero, but also has some passion to him.
I had such a good time working with John Woo and John Travolta, and it was so professional. I want to work with people who are real professionals.
I have brought a PS2 on set with me before. But games can be really addicting, and that's dangerous. So I tend to keep it fairly limited on a certain level.
I pretty much stick to the movie-based games. I play James Bond games and Minority Report and Spider-Man. I go for the big title hit movie games.
I think games are starting to branch out. It's not just guys sitting at their computer stations. Games are so fun, that everybody gets into them a little bit.
I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation.
I want to do films I can relate to emotionally.
I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people.
I was always such an incredible fan of John Woo, I just wanted to do this film with him.
I was lucky, I was never a child star. Instead, I gained a lot of professional experience and learned how to deal with people.
I'm blown away by the graphical detail of today's games. I can't imagine that it's going to get any better, but it's just going to continually progress and soon we'll be living in that world.
I'm trying not to put myself into anything I'm not 100 percent confident about.
I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface.
I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.
If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?
In truth, making films doesn't feel like hard work because I always have such a good time doing it.
It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make.
My mom put me in a Pampers commercial on TV.
That would really bum me out because I don't want to sell myself short and just do a film for the sake of doing a film.
The guys from Atari that are making the next Alone in the Dark game came and we had a great meeting. I'd love to do that. I'm a fan of videogames. I like them. And to get to be part of one of them would be a fun and exciting thing.
The movies I've made at a certain time of my life were exactly right for the stage of my life, the frame of mind I was in at the time. Each character I've had to play has been me in that time in my life.
The older I get, the more I realize how important it is to have certain things that are really my own, parts of my life that I keep to myself.
The way I see it, if you're going to make an action movie, you've got to make one with John Woo.
There was a time when I felt I should do everything that was offered to me, you know, ride the wave.
There's definitely still that insecurity about finding good new material, but I suppose my biggest fear now is not being happy.
There's something about doing theatre in London - it sinks a little bit deeper into your soul as an actor. It's something about the tradition of theatre, about performing on the West End stage.
This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.
Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role.
In 2004, Christian Slater was secretly dating Lindsay Lohen.
Christian Slater has been on the cover of People Magazine, Gear, Theatregoer, Bazaar, Entertainment Weekly, Movieline, YM, and Details.
In 1996, Christian Slater directed the movie Museum of Love.
Christian Slater's idol is Jack Nicholson.
Christian Slater has a daughter named Eliana Sophia.
In 1999, Christian Slater sold his house, which was located in Hollywood Hills, to actor Tim Allen.
Christian Slater is the half brother of actor, Ryan Slater.
In January of 1998, Christian Slater started his three month jail sentence, but was released after only serving 59 days. He was released early because of good behavior.
Christian Slater dropped out of high school in 1987.
Christian Slater's first acting gig was when he was seven. He appeared on the soap opera The Edge of Night in 1976.
Christian's mother is Mary Jo Slater, a well-known casting directory in Los Angeles.
Christian was the producer of The Deal and Very Bad Things.
Christian has won Theatregoers' Choice Awards for "Best Actor (in a Play)" for doing 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest'.
Christian won the MTV Movie Award for "Most Desirable Male" for Untamed Heart.
When he was 9, Christian was in the play The Music Man.
Christian has unusual eyebrows because he shaved them to dress up as Spock (a character from Star Trek) for Halloween.
Christian's father is actor Michael Hawkins.
Christian has been arrested many times.
Christian is a green belt in kempo karate.
Christian's height is 5'8?.
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