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" Life sometimes doesn't work out exactly as we plan or hope for. "

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" You don't improvise with a Cameron Crowe script. "

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" I'm looking at doing things that challenge me. "

" For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place. "

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" When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge. "

" I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference. "

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" I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something. "

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" The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean? "

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" Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up. "

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" I don't buy art to put away somewhere. I buy art to appreciate, enjoy, and live with. It's supposed to add to your life. "

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" I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part. "

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" People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you. "

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" I think it's important if you are an actor, if you are portraying human life, you have to connect with what is human. It's not easy if you spend a lot of time in L.A. and get sucked into the hedonism of the industry. "

" Yeah, I'm kind of fit. And I'm quite careful about my diet. "

" As an actor, you can't think about the end result or the fame; you just have to focus on the day you're in. You have no control over the finished product, what people will think of it, so all you have is the experience of making it, and you have to stay focused on that. "