I have a good relationship with Cristiano Ronaldo, and we'll have good relationship in the future, too.

When I came to England, I was dreaming about winning titles.

Spurs will always have a place in my heart.

I had great relationships with all the four coaches I played under at Real Madrid. They all helped me improve, but if I had to pick the best, I would pick Ancelotti.

It's an honor to be at the biggest club in the world.

I would change all my individual trophies for that trophy of World Cup champion.

I've seen a great deal of hardship in my life.

I have met him a few times. What can I say - Maradona is one of the best players in football history.

The most important thing is how the season ends.

I want to thank all the people at Tottenham. I had four great years there, and I enjoyed every moment. I want to thank everyone who made my life enjoyable in London.

I can say I am playing some of the best football of my career at 31. So maybe I can play better as I get older.

To play at Real Madrid, it is not enough to just have football quality. You must be mentally strong.

I don't like to compare players, particularly to myself.

Nobody is accustomed to play in front of an empty stadium.

Sometimes, when we play against weaker teams, everyone says, 'Oh, you won because you played weaker teams.'

The Nations League is a great competition.

I have to keep working hard and improving every day.

Tottenham was my first international club. I spent four glorious years there, and the fans were brilliant with me. I only have good memories.

We lived in a hotel for many years as we struggled financially, but I always loved football.

Fight for your dreams and success. This is what has always guided me.

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

I was often looked at as a leper by kids at school because I was a Jehovah's Witness. They didn't like it - you were 'weird'. And on Saturday mornings, you'd be knocking at their doors. I remember standing there with my mum and dad, thinking, 'Oh my God, I know whose door this is, and I'll have to see them on Monday.' It was terrible.

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.

I think the best directors rarely lose their temper.

One funny thing is, though, I wear my watch on my right hand and I'm actually right-handed. People always wonder why - I don't know myself, I've just always done it that way and I like it the way a good watch fits on my right wrist.

I've had some pretty awful jobs that I don't miss, like working on a nightclub door, or compiling VIP lists at 3 A.M. in the morning, but sometimes it's just got to be done.

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.

I did use my own accent in a play once. It's a very freeing, liberating experience. Actors are often asked to adopt a different accent, and sometimes a different voice, so when that's taken away and you don't have to think about it, that's a lovely thing.

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

It was very weird because for a long time no one really recognised me from my films, but 'The Hobbit' has totally changed that, and I've had some really special moments, especially with youngsters.

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

A longbow takes a massive draw for the arrow to go anywhere.

For my part, if the audience wanted to see Dracula again, I would be happy to reprise the role. It is an immortal character that can appear anywhere because it lies beyond time. Possibilities are endless.

People come up to me in pubs - gay pubs, mind you - and can't believe that I'm gay.

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.

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 feel that New Zealand is my second home.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The fascination for the Great Train Robbery has never diminished.

One thing Tolkien does incredibly well - and this is from a lay person's point of view; I am not scholar or anything - is that you don't have to make an effort to envisage the worlds that he writes about.

I guess maybe directors see a face that seems to have been lived in. I know that my face has been lived in, yeah.

I think every role you take on, you should take on the responsibility of doing the best representation of that person or that character or that role. When it is a human being that has actually existed, and it is a person that people know of, yeah, you feel an even more amount of pressure to do a good job.

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.

I'm not a 'Twilight' boy; I'll never be as good looking as those lads, and that's fair enough.

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.

The percentage of people that go to drama college in the U.K. is probably just like anywhere in the world. It's a very hard business to work in. They say that, at any one time, there's only 5% of actors in the world that are actually working and getting paid, which is a shocking percentage, really.