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" From the big mountains in the north to the valleys in the south, all through my childhood and teenage years, my family would always holiday in Wales. "

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" There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps. "

" I guess once you've been acting for a long time, you glean the great bits of good directors and the bad bits from other directors, and you know the way that you would like to be directed. "

" 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 had a role in 'Crossroads' when I was about 21, and then I went on to perform in 'Small Change' and then 'Piaf' in the Donmar Warehouse, London, and it was when I was there that some casting directors spotted me. "

" 'The Desolation of Smaug' stands alone as an action/adventure epic movie. It's visually stunning, and the 3D is incredible. Plus, it's directed by Peter Jackson, and he's extraordinary. "

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

" I come from south Wales. A place called Aberbargoed. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I had a very lovely childhood, and, being an only child, I'm very close to my mom and my dad. "

" 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. "

" Most men have an insecurity of some sort. But we're brought up to believe that we can't show them. "

" And I knew that, being an actor, you have to take the rough with the smooth and the highs with the lows. That's how it is. "

" 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. "

" I think sandals should be burnt. I hate them - purge them! "

" To be able to work with people who I have respected and admired, to be a part of something like the Cannes Film Festival, is surreal and brilliant. "

" 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. "

" In all honesty, I should have given up this acting lark years ago. "

" I wouldn't say being in a film with The Rock was 'motivating.' 'Terrifying' would be a more accurate description. "

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

" 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. "

" I just love the sound of a black woman's voice. "

" It's good for people to look at me and think, 'This guy is doing his thing and enjoying what he's doing and successful at it and living his life.' And that's what I'm doing, and I'm very happy. "

" It was never really part of my plan to be in films; it was really sort of a dream. "

" One thing Tolkien does incredibly well - and this is from a lay person's point of view; I am not scholar or anything - is that you don't have to make an effort to envisage the worlds that he writes about. "

" I certainly didn't want to make another movie that's 'just another Dracula film.' "

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

" One funny thing is, though, I wear my watch on my right hand and I'm actually right-handed. People always wonder why - I don't know myself, I've just always done it that way and I like it the way a good watch fits on my right wrist. "