My father and I are very similar and have a wonderful relationship, but we both stand by our opinions.

Not often do you approach a character where people know more about him than you do.

Sometimes there is more exploration in the character for a villain.

Strong female leads are important.

The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting.

Well, I'll keep on auditioning and one day maybe I'll go to LA and try out for films there.

Work all paled into the background as soon as I had a baby.

Working with Anthony Hopkins every day is a blessing.

You come to America, and, if you do a big TV show, then you can be overexposed, or old, before you're new.

You get the part, sign the contract and start to realize millions of people follow this guy and know more about your character than you do.

I have seen 'Thor', yeah. It's fantastic. Being that close to something, it's often pretty hard to watch yourself, but the film in so many ways is so impressive that I was swept along with it like an audience member, and that's a pretty good sign.

At home in Victoria, we have three dogs, Tosh and Lucy, they're half Blue Heelers, and then there's Torrin a little Maltese terrier. She gets more attention in the house than anyone else! Yes, I miss them a lot.

For whatever reason, we relate to anything godlike with an English accent. The English are very proud of that. And with anything Roman or gladiators, they have an English accent. For an audience, it is an easy trick to hook people in.

I actually find it harder to act in the scenes where there's not much happening, say having a milkshake in the diner. That is far harder to do than straight scenes where there's a drama going on and you have something to do.

I went from sort of trying to get work to all of a sudden being signed up for the next few years on something, and something of this scale with some of the best people in the business involved, acting and directing. It was a dream.

People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for others, and anyone in any profession whose concern is the welfare for other people instead of the individual, are inspiring and important.

You have the massive world that was created by Marvel, and then you have these very intimate actors around you. There was as much character work on this as there would be on a little independent film. So, I felt very fortunate in that sense.

I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait.

As a kid, you run around the house pretending to be a superhero, and now to be doing it as a job, I feel very lucky.

I feel like I'm ready for any dangerous situation that might come my way, provided I have a hammer on me.