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" Money has never been a huge inspiration for me. "
Ryan Kwanten
Me
Been
Never
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Long
" In order to be able to give a girlfriend the amount of time she deserves, you would need time, and I just can't give her that. So, rather than being selfish or stupid enough to go into a relationship, it's just been easier to be single. "
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" I like to have a hectic schedule. "
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" I love acting, so it's easy when you have a passion for it. I've always found the harder you work, the luckier you get. "
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Acting
Easy
" I'm glad acting sunk its teeth into me, because now I can't imagine doing anything else. "
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Teeth
Me
" I'm undefeated in Scrabble. I can figure out an opponent's strategy and mold mine to offset theirs. I play a couple times a week, and I'll often play a game on my bed by myself against myself, which I realize sounds completely mad. "
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Myself
Week
Strategy
" Whether I fall on my feet or fall on my arse, I dunno. You've got to take those risks. "
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Risks
Feet
" There's a certain addiction to sweat, for sure. I'm not the same person without it. If I don't get my hour of exercise in every day, then I'm not the person that I want to be. "
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Every Day
Day
" I'm very rarely in the gym. My workouts are predominantly outside, in nature. "
Ryan Kwanten
Outside
Rarely
Very
" I'm definitely an elbow-room guy. "
Ryan Kwanten
Guy
Definitely
" I never want to be that guy at a dinner table saying, 'I wish I could have dessert.' I actually went through a stage when I would order dessert first. "
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Want
Dinner
Saying
" I'm not the kind of guy that inspires madness in people. "
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Kind
Inspires
Guy
" I like exploring the mystery of a relationship instead of laying it all out on the table at the beginning. "
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Beginning
Mystery
Table
" My mum is about five foot with her hair done. Without it she's about four foot 10. "
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Without
Done
Foot
" Fortunately, now I've got myself in a position where things are about story and not money. In my earlier career, it was more about getting my foot in the door and to get enough money to live, to be perfectly honest. "
Ryan Kwanten
Enough
Live
Money
" Sleep has never been a priority in my life. "
Ryan Kwanten
Priority
Never
Sleep
" That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form. "
Ryan Kwanten
Art
Talking
Lot
" Australian women tend to tell it like it is - even if it's the brutal, honest truth. I think American women usually break it to you a little easier. There's a softer side to them. "
Ryan Kwanten
American
Women
Tell
" I'm very much a masochist at heart. "
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Much
Very
Heart
" I pride myself on breaking any box that anyone wants to put me in. "
Ryan Kwanten
Wants
Myself
Me
" As actors, we deal with rejection so much more than any other business. So I don't care how much of a genius you are, if you don't have the propensity to be able to get back up every time you get knocked down, then you're not going to survive. "
Ryan Kwanten
Care
Time
Rejection
" There was a time when I wanted to be a lawyer, or even a professional triathlete... But nothing could come close to the passion I have for acting. "
Ryan Kwanten
Passion
Lawyer
Time
" I moved to L.A., and people said that I would never find work, that I would never find good friends, and I feel like I was fortunate enough to find the work, but it wouldn't mean anything unless I had a group of people who could appreciate it. "
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Work
Appreciate
Good
" I'm somewhat of a masochist at heart. I like to sweat. I come from a very competitive sporting background - my dad was a world-champion surfer - so it's always been a part of my DNA. I do a lot of soft-sand running, hiking, yoga, and boxing, and I compete in triathlons. "
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Heart
Like
Sweat
" I'm not one of those actors who gets physically fit for a role and then loses it all again. "
Ryan Kwanten
Those
Who
Again
" I used to get a sort of sociophobia, and I still get it sometimes these days when I'm in a confined space with too many people. It's not like I freak out or anything, it's just that I'm far more comfortable in my own company sometimes than being surrounded by one thousand strangers. "
Ryan Kwanten
Space
Sometimes
People
" I'm drawn to a good story, really, as I hope most people are. For me, it's the story that's going to stay with you eventually, not necessarily the genre. I go to watch a film because of the story, not because it was a Western or a comedy. "
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Me
Good
Hope
" I'm fortunate enough with the surfing to be very much at home at the water - my pulse and heart rate are slower in the water than they are on land. "
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Water
Enough
Heart
" I make about two movies a year outside the 'True Blood' schedule. I work on a great show six months a year, then outside that I get to satisfy whatever creative urges I have. It's a great position, especially for a single guy like me. "
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Me
Movies
True
" I don't know if my sense of humor goes over Americans' heads. "
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Sense Of Humor
Humor
Know