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" The first time I was flown to L.A. for a screen test was an incredibly nerve-racking experience. "

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" I come from the countryside. I come from a bunch of horticulture family members. My best friend was a farmer's boy. "

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

" I've always had quite long canines. It's a very strange thing. My parents don't have them. "

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

" 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. "

" Directing is something I've sort of always felt like I'd like to do at one point, and I thought the best way to start it is to write something myself or with someone and I'd go from there. My own material. "

" 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. "

" There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps. "

" My trainer is with me all day. We train before I come to work, and then I just keep training all day. "

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

" I always wanted to get into proper shape. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I don't see enough theatre. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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've got two cows licks; when I was a kid, all the boys in school used to have curtains, and my hair never used to do that, ever! I always used to try, and I always looked like the geek. "

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

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

" My mother did like to make clothes, and in I think the worst picture I've ever seen of myself - I must have been eight or nine - she'd dressed me in a matching t-shirt and Bermuda shorts ensemble which I think looked like somebody had thrown up all over it. I was so glad when that sewing machine stopped working, I have to say. "

" To be able to work with people who I have respected and admired, to be a part of something like the Cannes Film Festival, is surreal and brilliant. "

" To me, growing up in South Wales, a pair of Diesel jeans were the thing to have - if you could afford them. "

" 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. "