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" I was bullied at school, so I didn't much like it. "

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" 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. "

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

" I don't think you should spend that much time in the gym. Don't sit around between sets too long. If you want to burn some calories, keep the sets tight. Give yourself 30 seconds to a minute between each set. Supersetting is brilliant. "

" 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 guess maybe directors see a face that seems to have been lived in. I know that my face has been lived in, yeah. "

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

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

" My style is determined by the mood, the period and the circumstances which I'm going through in a given moment. "

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

" 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. "

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

" If I have to look a certain way for something, I know how long it's going to take me do it. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've always had quite long canines. It's a very strange thing. My parents don't have them. "

" I've played quite a few good guys. "

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

" 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 don't need to be super-ripped all year round. That's a pretty miserable way to live your life. "

" I don't carry off 'quirky.' "

" You don't want to play the same roles or do the same genre. "

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

" I feel that New Zealand is my second home. "