Actor

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.

The fascination for the Great Train Robbery has never diminished.

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

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.

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.'

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

Miranda Kerr is absolutely lovely.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

You don't want to play the same roles or do the same genre.

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.

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

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.

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.

I was bullied at school, so I didn't much like it.

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