Bale Credits Wife For Grounded Attitude

THE DARK NIGHT star CHRISTIAN BALE has credited his wife SIBI with keeping him grounded in Hollywood.

The British actor often shuns the industry's party lifestyle, preferring to stay at home with his wife of eight years and their daughter Emmaline, three.

And Bale says he owes his clean-living attitude to his wife.

He says, "It could have easily gone so wrong for me in Hollywood. The moment you have success, people tell you that you've made the big time.

"I'd been living a rootless life, working on films - without a home to go to. Then I met Sibi on a beach in California and we got talking.

"Sibi has such a great attitude to life and understands how I like to approach acting and my private life. She's my secret weapon."