It is a very beautiful story, 'The Crow.' It is a very tragic story with huge emotional themes.

I don't need to be super-ripped all year round. That's a pretty miserable way to live your life.

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

Wales is blessed with some truly magnificent castles, full of history and a must see for visitors.

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

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

Most men have an insecurity of some sort. But we're brought up to believe that we can't show them.

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

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

British actors are renowned for being great villains in movies, like Bond films, all the rest of it.

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

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

When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch.

When I was focusing on theater, I would go on for months without any work and could hardly pay the rent.

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

It's nice to be part of something that could grow into something else and be there at the beginning of it.

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

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

You've got to be in the moment and respond to what you're feeling. I try to simplify it as much as possible.

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

If you look weird, you can blame the role, you know? So no one's going to tell me I'm having a mid-life crisis.

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

People want to hear your stories about these wonderful experiences you have, and that's what press tours are for.

I wouldn't say being in a film with The Rock was 'motivating.' 'Terrifying' would be a more accurate description.

It's just nice to do something a bit different, and I guess when you're an actor, you have the license to do that.

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

Singing seems to be inherent in Filipino, just as it is in my race. That's why I have this affinity with Filipinos.

Sometimes I comment, but you have to be careful because if you do it for one, everybody wants you to say something.

Most of the time, you do films and they can be big films, but you are rarely aware of the fan base that comes with it.

I do love action films and I hope I'm going to do many more and learn lots of new crafts 'cause that's the joy of movies.

And I knew that, being an actor, you have to take the rough with the smooth and the highs with the lows. That's how it is.

Basically, Apollo was more of a mediator between Zeus in Olympus and Perseus on Earth. He played much more of an active role.

When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own singing and acting lessons.

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.

If you work with amazing actors, you've got a master class happening in front of you. But [also] it's just acting at the end of the day.

I'm very, very close to my mum and dad. My mum is only nineteen years older than me, so she could be my older sister, which is really nice.

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.

Well usually if I'm having a sh***y day, I don't post anything. I don't go out just to tell everyone I'm having a great day, even if I'm not.

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.

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.

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.

From the big mountains in the north to the valleys in the south, all through my childhood and teenage years, my family would always holiday in Wales.

In 10 years, I’d love to live near the sea, in a warmer climate. I could see myself with three dogs…and it’d be great to share them with someone else.

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.

In 10 years, I'd love to live near the sea, in a warmer climate. I could see myself with three dogs... and it'd be great to share them with someone else.

Not everybody's a great singer, but people can get better at singing. There's great singing teachers out there. It's a muscle, you just have to train it.

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.

I started doing [acting] for a living, no one really warned me about the amount of traveling I would do. I always thought everything was shot in Los Angeles.

The gym is somewhere you can go to just forget for an hour what you do for a living, what you are doing on a daily basis. You just turn up and get on with it.

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