The percentage of people that go to drama college in the U.K. is probably just like anywhere in the world. It's a very hard business to work in. They say that, at any one time, there's only 5% of actors in the world that are actually working and getting paid, which is a shocking percentage, really.
To me, growing up in South Wales, a pair of Diesel jeans were the thing to have - if you could afford them.
I did use my own accent in a play once. It's a very freeing, liberating experience. Actors are often asked to adopt a different accent, and sometimes a different voice, so when that's taken away and you don't have to think about it, that's a lovely thing.
Miranda Kerr is absolutely lovely.
When I'm training hard, the diet is miserable.
There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.
I understand, certain scenes have to have a lot of takes. As an actor, I think it's quite nice to have a handful of takes, because you don't want to do it once or twice; I think once or twice sometimes is quite terrifying because you don't really feel like you've given them what you want.
It was never really part of my plan to be in films; it was really sort of a dream.
It is a very beautiful story, 'The Crow.' It is a very tragic story with huge emotional themes.
For my part, if the audience wanted to see Dracula again, I would be happy to reprise the role. It is an immortal character that can appear anywhere because it lies beyond time. Possibilities are endless.
I always wanted to sing, as a child.
If you ask an actor what he'd prefer to act on, he'd probably say a tangible, real set, or even better, a real location out on a mountainside or by a river. It's just easier because you don't have to imagine anything.
My style is determined by the mood, the period and the circumstances which I'm going through in a given moment.
Everybody knew me as a gay man, and in my life in London, I never tried to hide.
There are certain films you want to see on the big screen.
I'd like to make a film musical. That's really my dream.
I used to take my car and go down to the South Island for five or six days and climb glaciers and jump out of planes and jump off bridges and go white water rafting - a bit of thrill-seeking.
The truth of the matter is roles like James Bond are the ones that I look up to as probably the best roles ever to play. So that's probably my ultimate goal one day: to play James Bond.
I come from a country that lives and breathes rugby, and I didn't think there would be anywhere else in the world that could be the same. But New Zealand takes it to another dimension. It's extraordinary how much passion Kiwis have for the game.
I do like Jason Statham as a person and as an actor. I think he's a great performer, and he delivers every time.
I always wanted to get into proper shape.
I've played quite a few good guys.
I'm not one of those superstitious people.
Costume is a massive thing. I think costume makes you stand differently.
It's good for your body to have a break. Even when you're training, you have to have a cheat day every week. The body reacts better to training if you give it intervals of not training, or you relax the diet.
I come from south Wales. A place called Aberbargoed.
The first time I was flown to L.A. for a screen test was an incredibly nerve-racking experience.
I'm not a 'Twilight' boy; I'll never be as good looking as those lads, and that's fair enough.
In theater, you sometimes can only do one or two jobs a year because they're long periods. In film, you can shoot so many. It's quite interesting.
I've had some pretty awful jobs that I don't miss, like working on a nightclub door, or compiling VIP lists at 3 A.M. in the morning, but sometimes it's just got to be done.
When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own singing and acting lessons.
I guess maybe directors see a face that seems to have been lived in. I know that my face has been lived in, yeah.
I've always said that theater was where I began, so everything I do now has a bit of my theater background in it. It was my training.
People want to hear your stories about these wonderful experiences you have, and that's what press tours are for.
Everybody knows about Peter Jackson, 'The Hobbit' movies and 'The Lord of the Rings' films being made in New Zealand, and to actually have been part of it for such a long period, to live there and to have friends that I will have for life because of that experience, is an amazing thing.