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" I had a very difficult upbringing. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 always find cardio the most monotonous. Running on a treadmill shows me why hamsters are so crazy. "

" 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 would love to be able to tap dance. "

" Gemma Arterton in 'The Master Builder' at the Almeida - she was absolutely brilliant. Ibsen is difficult and quite hard to follow, but she just brings the stage to life. "

" I think the best directors provide you with a safe environment where they can instill you with confidence and allow you to try things out and not feel like you're failing or that you're doing it wrong. "

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

" I'm basically turning my apartment into an armory. "

" 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. "

" I think the best directors rarely lose their temper. "

" People come up to me in pubs - gay pubs, mind you - and can't believe that I'm gay. "

" Voices are always a challenge. I always have to work at each accent I do. "

" 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. "

" People want to hear your stories about these wonderful experiences you have, and that's what press tours are for. "

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

" I think every role you take on, you should take on the responsibility of doing the best representation of that person or that character or that role. When it is a human being that has actually existed, and it is a person that people know of, yeah, you feel an even more amount of pressure to do a good job. "

" 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 don't necessarily pay extreme attention to what I wear on a daily basis, but I do love to wear something special for an important occasion or when I feel happy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" It was very weird because for a long time no one really recognised me from my films, but 'The Hobbit' has totally changed that, and I've had some really special moments, especially with youngsters. "

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