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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Most of the time, you do films and they can be big films, but you are rarely aware of the fan base that comes with it. "

" A watch is a fashion statement, and it says something about the person wearing it. "

" 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. "

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

" It is a very beautiful story, 'The Crow.' It is a very tragic story with huge emotional themes. "

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

" 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. "

" Singing seems to be inherent in Filipino, just as it is in my race. That's why I have this affinity with Filipinos. "

" I think starting a cinema career late in life has more advantages than disadvantages. "

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

" I've had letters from people who have read my articles and said, 'I'm a guy, I'm 18, and I've not come out to my mom and dad yet, but it was so nice to hear your story, and you know, I wish your article would have been longer, because you gave me hope for the future.' "

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

" In theater, you sometimes can only do one or two jobs a year because they're long periods. In film, you can shoot so many. It's quite interesting. "

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

" The Sixties was all about style and a certain look. But what was interesting about 1963 was that it was pre-Beatles, so the clothes of that time, especially the suits, were very different from the clothes post-Beatlemania. "

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

" 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. "

" Before the 'Fast & Furious' promo in Manila, I went on a vacation in the Philippines 10 years earlier. I loved it. My 'Miss Saigon' friends showed me around. "

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

" 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 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 had a very difficult upbringing. "

" As much as my parents were worried about me moving to London at 17, they could see that I was hungry to find my path. And it probably helped that they saw me succeeding at it, slowly but surely. "