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" I wanted to be a lawyer. Then a journalist. Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist. "

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" I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out. "

" Singing is incredibly physical. "

" You have to eat before you train. Otherwise, that really intense training, after about 40 minutes you start to flag. "

" When you dance, your body just wants to find its natural weight. I'm naturally a lot more Tommy Tune than I am Wolverine. "

" If I'm a lush at anything, it's food and drink. I'm not materialistic in any way, but I value food. "

" I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one. "

" I had a bad back for a couple of years. I had to do a lot of physiotherapy for it. What I couldn't understand at the time was why the therapists had me doing a lot of stomach work. "

" If I could only do one exercise, it would be dead lifting. For cardio, I dance, I ride my bike, I run and I have kids. There is a... lot of cardio just from being a parent. "

" There is anxiety, but it comes after you've finished filming because it's out of your hands; people are editing it, they're cutting it, marketing it. And it's... part your career sort of rides on that. But when you're actually filming it's a team thing and it really feels good there for me. "

" We feel that there are so many kids who need adopting. We thought we'd do it after having a couple of our own, but we just changed our mind. "

" I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and realised there's no good reason for the disparity in opportunity around the world. "

" My favorite play in drama school was 'The Bacchae.' It's about a king who literally gets eaten alive by all the women in the play in a kind of orgy - it's related to the word 'bacchanal' - and I loved that idea of animalistic chaos and following our own desires. "

" The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was 'Beauty and the Beast.' I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it's very physical. I had headaches every day for two months. "

" The activity of being a husband, a father - those are roles, too, but underneath them is the spiritual center that connects us all, and that's what's most important. "

" There was a whole display set up of all the X-Men paraphernalia. My wife couldn't resist telling this 5-year-old boy that I was Wolverine. The little kid looked up at me and he was staring at me. "

" I always felt love from both my parents. "

" Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist. "

" I just find the evangelical church too, well, restrictive. But the School of Practical Philosophy is nonconfrontational. We believe there are many forms of Scripture. What is true is true and will never change, whether it's in the Bible or in Shakespeare. It's about oneness. "

" As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that. "

" I don't think many actors are the best judge of careers. I think generally we have good instincts about what we can do in terms of acting. And often they become directors, which I don't want to be. "

" As an actor, you have many tools - your body, your voice, your emotions, mentally. In film, you have your eyes because they communicate your thought process. In fact, generally in film, what you don't say is more important than what you say. That's not so much the case for stage. "

" For me that's one of the great indulgences in life - a hand-tailored suit, and a great pair of handmade shoes. "

" My mum and I are, in many ways, quite similar. We're both creative, gregarious, and energetic. "

" To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions. "

" I'm quite an independent person, and I had to be. As a boy and growing into a young man I had to look out for myself. And now I'm very family-oriented. It's a big priority in my life. "

" I once sang 'Summer Nights,' from 'Grease,' at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who's a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny - sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar - while I got stuck playing Sandy. "

" Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't think it's any greater challenge than teaching 8-year-olds or any other career. In my life, I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the people around me. "

" Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot. "

" I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people. "