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It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.

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Christian Bale
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 30
Actor
Character Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
Television Actor
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Christian Charles Philip Bale
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I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous.
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It's very easy to leave when things go wrong, but to stick around and to basically give life to a town because of everything that it gave you generation after generation after generation, that to me is what defines a true American.
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