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" 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. "

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" Being involved in 'The Hobbit' has been a huge boost for me. It's really put me on the map and helped me be taken more seriously as an actor. "

" And I love to cook! I've impressed hundreds of women with my cooking. And they always come back for more. "

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" There are certain films you want to see on the big screen. "

" I was a weed. Such a skinny little weed. I just couldn't put on weight; I couldn't put on muscle. I was the oddest shape. And I thought that was it: that's how I'd look for the rest of my life. And I'd beat myself up about it so much. But you change an awful lot. You're 16. Your body's not even halfway to what it'll end up being. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" If you're gonna start a story, you start from the beginning, right? "

" If you decide you want to work in the film industry, you just have to bite the bullet and take other jobs until the proper jobs come in. "

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

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Cinema

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

" I used to take my car and go down to the South Island for five or six days and climb glaciers and jump out of planes and jump off bridges and go white water rafting - a bit of thrill-seeking. "

" 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. "

" Peter Jackson is a wonderful man. He's a great director. He's found his niche in life. "

" I moved to Cardiff when I was 17 and never needed a car. When I came to L.A. for my first job there, I needed a car, so I had to pass my driving test. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Everybody knew me as a gay man, and in my life in London, I never tried to hide. "

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" I do like Jason Statham as a person and as an actor. I think he's a great performer, and he delivers every time. "

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" I'm not a 'Twilight' boy; I'll never be as good looking as those lads, and that's fair enough. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes I eat at, like, 9:30 at night and then go to bed at 10:30 and wake up at 4:00. "