If you read 50 books, I’ll get you a motor bike.
Women, as mothers of the earth, deserve the utmost respect.
I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I’m trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.
The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It’s an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.
I’m amazed that things have panned out the way they have. I always say I’m so lucky, though my mum always says, ‘You make your own luck.’
A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn’t make it any less weird though.
I don’t do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn’t have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.
I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you’re having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.
Wanting to be a rock star, I get it. I’m like, ‘Oh, my God, dude! The freedom!’
I don’t know any family that doesn’t have a story somewhere. Besides, it you didn’t have those things in life, you’d be so bland.
My baby is amazing, even his head smells amazing. His breath, the whole thing, you could eat him!
I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is going to be a safe place to work, but I really don’t think about it.
A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.
Everything you know, all the things that you thought were important, drift into the background. And even things that were important really come to the fore and he’s one of them.
The philosophy that I’ve embraced isn’t about sitting under a tree and studying my navel.
I need to keep reinventing myself.
I don’t care much about the money at all. Frankly, if I get the chance to kiss someone in a movie, they wouldn’t need to pay me at all.