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I felt alive when I read a script and acted out a scene, or sang a song. It was my dream. I'm just very lucky that I'm still doing it and able to earn a living from it.
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I don't think you should spend that much time in the gym. Don't sit around between sets too long. If you want to burn some calories, keep the sets tight. Give yourself 30 seconds to a minute between each set. Supersetting is brilliant.
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I had a very difficult upbringing.
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I guess once you've been acting for a long time, you glean the great bits of good directors and the bad bits from other directors, and you know the way that you would like to be directed.
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I've had letters from people who have read my articles and said, 'I'm a guy, I'm 18, and I've not come out to my mom and dad yet, but it was so nice to hear your story, and you know, I wish your article would have been longer, because you gave me hope for the future.'
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I think sandals should be burnt. I hate them - purge them!
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In all honesty, I should have given up this acting lark years ago.
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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.
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Basically, Apollo was more of a mediator between Zeus in Olympus and Perseus on Earth. He played much more of an active role.
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I don't comment on other people's opinion.
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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.
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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.
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A watch is a fashion statement, and it says something about the person wearing it.
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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.
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It's just hard to get an independent film made.
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I was bullied at school, so I didn't much like it.
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I've played quite a few good guys.
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Most men have an insecurity of some sort. But we're brought up to believe that we can't show them.
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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.
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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.
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Everybody knows about Peter Jackson, 'The Hobbit' movies and 'The Lord of the Rings' films being made in New Zealand, and to actually have been part of it for such a long period, to live there and to have friends that I will have for life because of that experience, is an amazing thing.
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I'm this dude that can play a farmhand and a handyman and sometimes a Greek god.
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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.
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People come up to me in pubs - gay pubs, mind you - and can't believe that I'm gay.