When I'm training hard, the diet is miserable.

I love to sit down on a beanbag at the end of the day and watch my fish. It's therapeutic, isn't it? They're alive, and I'm keeping them alive. I like the responsibility.

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

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

A guy's biggest style mistake is definitely trying to look too cool. As long as you've got a good pair of jeans, a good pair of boots and a few good shirts, you're fine.

Good suits don't come from anywhere, though - I mainly wear Armani, Louis Vuitton and Burberry.

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.

I don't see enough theatre.

I certainly didn't want to make another movie that's 'just another Dracula film.'

I've played quite a few good guys.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

You have to give everything to every job you do.

Vampires were always able to transform into creatures of the night. The dark creatures like bats have always been associated with vampires and using the darkness to their own advantage.

It was never really part of my plan to be in films; it was really sort of a dream.

I have seen 'Fast Six,' and it's awesome.

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.

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 come from a country that lives and breathes rugby, and I didn't think there would be anywhere else in the world that could be the same. But New Zealand takes it to another dimension. It's extraordinary how much passion Kiwis have for the game.

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

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.

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

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.

I'm basically turning my apartment into an armory.

I don't necessarily pay extreme attention to what I wear on a daily basis, but I do love to wear something special for an important occasion or when I feel happy.

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

If I have to look a certain way for something, I know how long it's going to take me do it.

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.

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

Peter Jackson is a wonderful man. He's a great director. He's found his niche in life.

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

It's a lot of fun being dressed by designers and surrounded by publicists.

I was a weed. Such a skinny little weed. I just couldn't put on weight; I couldn't put on muscle. I was the oddest shape. And I thought that was it: that's how I'd look for the rest of my life. And I'd beat myself up about it so much. But you change an awful lot. You're 16. Your body's not even halfway to what it'll end up being.

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

You have to have a lot of money to go to college. It's not cheap.

Gemma Arterton in 'The Master Builder' at the Almeida - she was absolutely brilliant. Ibsen is difficult and quite hard to follow, but she just brings the stage to life.

Sometimes I eat at, like, 9:30 at night and then go to bed at 10:30 and wake up at 4:00.

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

'The Desolation of Smaug' stands alone as an action/adventure epic movie. It's visually stunning, and the 3D is incredible. Plus, it's directed by Peter Jackson, and he's extraordinary.

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.

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

I come from south Wales. A place called Aberbargoed.

Every time you get in shape for a role, there's a different way to do it so it doesn't get boring.

You never get over an ex, but you learn to live with it.

I always wanted to sing, as a child.

I always wanted to get into proper shape.

As much as my parents were worried about me moving to London at 17, they could see that I was hungry to find my path. And it probably helped that they saw me succeeding at it, slowly but surely.