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" It's a lovely thing to be able to sing. "

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" I did use my own accent in a play once. It's a very freeing, liberating experience. Actors are often asked to adopt a different accent, and sometimes a different voice, so when that's taken away and you don't have to think about it, that's a lovely thing. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I have seen 'Fast Six,' and it's awesome. "

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

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

" I really loved 'Fast Five.' I thought it was a brilliant movie. I thought it was so well done, well directed. The action sequences were really well thought out. It looked fantastic. "

" Costume is a massive thing. I think costume makes you stand differently. "

" 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. "

" Living in New Zealand, it's like a different world - it is a different world. It's very, very cool. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" You can read 50 great things about yourself, but the one bad thing will be what you remember most. "

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

" I look in the mirror, and I don't mind what I see. "

" 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. "

" I come from a country that lives and breathes rugby, and I didn't think there would be anywhere else in the world that could be the same. But New Zealand takes it to another dimension. It's extraordinary how much passion Kiwis have for the game. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but not in cinema. "