"If Robin crops up in one of the new Batman films, I'll be chaining myself up somewhere and refusing to go to work." —Christian Bale [WENN via Starpulse]

"He said to me, 'Lose weight, man, because you are not going to survive it if you are that fat!'" —Guillermo del Toro on the best advice Peter Jackson has given him about making The Hobbit [MTV]

"I have a real disdain for the audience, in general, My whole point is: 'You can't think of things to make yourselves laugh, so you have to come watch me? You jerks.'" — Zach Galifianakis, comedian for the people [AP via Yahoo]

"Someone's 6-year-old said, after seeing one of our rehearsals, that she thought she would have to sleep with her parents for a while. So I guess it's working." —David Cronenberg on his new opera based on The Fly [AP via Yahoo]

"It's like CSI: You use real-life situations to create something that's entertaining without being specific." —50 Cent, the forensic scientist of hip-hop [MTV]