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" Being involved in 'The Hobbit' has been a huge boost for me. It's really put me on the map and helped me be taken more seriously as an actor. "

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" You have to give everything to every job you do. "

" I research the role, and if it's a literary character, I read the book, and if it's an historical figure, I research documents and biographies. If it's a fictional character, I work off the script. "

" I always wanted to sing, as a child. "

" You can read 50 great things about yourself, but the one bad thing will be what you remember most. "

" There are certain tuxes you can get away with a black tie, but with others, you'd be dishonoring the workmanship if you didn't wear a full bow tie. "

" Vampires were always able to transform into creatures of the night. The dark creatures like bats have always been associated with vampires and using the darkness to their own advantage. "

" My mother did like to make clothes, and in I think the worst picture I've ever seen of myself - I must have been eight or nine - she'd dressed me in a matching t-shirt and Bermuda shorts ensemble which I think looked like somebody had thrown up all over it. I was so glad when that sewing machine stopped working, I have to say. "

" The fascination for the Great Train Robbery has never diminished. "

" When I'm training hard, the diet is miserable. "

" When I didn't get a job, I thought, 'Don't worry, there'll be another one.' I still live by that now. Nothing really fazes me any more. "

" I had a very difficult upbringing. "

" It's a lot of fun being dressed by designers and surrounded by publicists. "

" Everybody knew me as a gay man, and in my life in London, I never tried to hide. "

" Good suits don't come from anywhere, though - I mainly wear Armani, Louis Vuitton and Burberry. "

" My trainer is with me all day. We train before I come to work, and then I just keep training all day. "

" The gym is somewhere you can go to just forget for an hour what you do for a living, what you are doing on a daily basis. You just turn up and get on with it. "

" When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch. "

" Basically, Apollo was more of a mediator between Zeus in Olympus and Perseus on Earth. He played much more of an active role. "

" I was a weed. Such a skinny little weed. I just couldn't put on weight; I couldn't put on muscle. I was the oddest shape. And I thought that was it: that's how I'd look for the rest of my life. And I'd beat myself up about it so much. But you change an awful lot. You're 16. Your body's not even halfway to what it'll end up being. "

" 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. "

" If you train too much, it can rule your life, and I don't think that's healthy - for men or women. "

" Directing is something I've sort of always felt like I'd like to do at one point, and I thought the best way to start it is to write something myself or with someone and I'd go from there. My own material. "

" British actors are renowned for being great villains in movies, like Bond films, all the rest of it. "

" I'd like to make a film musical. That's really my dream. "

" I've got two cows licks; when I was a kid, all the boys in school used to have curtains, and my hair never used to do that, ever! I always used to try, and I always looked like the geek. "

" It's just hard to get an independent film made. "

" You have to have a lot of money to go to college. It's not cheap. "

" I think heroes are the people that go into houses when they're on fire and save people in hospitals. "

" To me, growing up in South Wales, a pair of Diesel jeans were the thing to have - if you could afford them. "

" There are certain films you want to see on the big screen. "