Biografía

Donated most of his paycheck from Entrevista con el vampiro (1994) to River Phoenix's favorite charities after the young actor's untimely death at age 23.

The trousers worn by him in Aquel país desconocido (1991) are the same ones worn by William Shatner in Star Trek II: La ira de Khan (1982). He noticed the name label still inside them. In subsequent interviews, he quipped that he was "proud" to get into Shatner's pants.

Won the roles of the Interviewer in Entrevista con el vampiro (1994) and Eric Draven in El cuervo (1994) after the death of friend and fellow actor River Phoenix (who had been cast in the first role and turned down the second). Slater also turned down the lead in El cuervo (1994), leading producers to actor Brandon Lee - who would become permanently linked with the film and its story when he was accidentally killed on the scenery.

The long-standing rumor about Christian's eyebrows (that he shaved them off to look like Spock and they never grew back properly) is actually false. Christian was joking with a reporter in one of his first interviews, and this was somehow printed as fact. He actually stated that he regretted mentioning this, as he still gets asked about the "Halloween costume gone bad" nearly twenty years later.

Arrested in West Hollywood, California, after allegedly leading sheriff's deputies on a car chase. A sheriff's spokesman said Slater crashed into a telephone pole, kicked a police officer after getting out of his car, then tried to escape over a fence. He was charged with evading police, driving under the influence, assault with a deadly weapon {his cowboy boots} and driving with a suspended license.

People need something to fill their papers, and I'm happy to provide.

Good judgement comes from experience. Sometimes, experience comes from bad judgement.

I've always been fond of Winona Ryder.

[on being accused of copying Jack Nicholson] 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?

It still amazes me when I look at some of the films I've been a part of, and some of the people I've gotten to meet and work with. I also look back sometimes and realize that I was lucky to have lived through them and even to have survived them, at times.