Henry Cavill Quotes
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When you give your all to something and you're hitting a wall, it just feels so wrong.
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People have this belief that actors are able to go out there and say, 'Oh I choose this job,' but most of the time we're just taking the job we can get. We don't just get offered thousands of jobs; we might earn one job a year and that's the one we'll take because we've got to pay the rent.
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You treat anyone normally, and they'll treat you normally back.
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This acting job - it pays very well and you get to live a wonderful lifestyle, but it's something that I love doing, so I want to work with other people who enjoy it as well...
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It's difficult to judge other actors, because as an actor you're looking at different things than what an audience is looking at.
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Why can men no longer be best friends? This is so stupid. Today if you show two guys being best friends they end up giving out an image that they’re gay. But guys don’t always need to be drinking beer, fighting in pubs or pulling women by the hair. They may have a deep affection.
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Superman isn't moody or brooding or aggressive.
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As much as I do love real-life stories they can often make you hurt in a way I'd rather not hurt. . . . For some reason, it's always the pain that gets you.
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If someone's trying to intimidate me, male or female, I don't respect them enough to be intimidated.
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Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go.
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A large amount of constant activity will get things going. For example, training in the morning will have everything, all the juices flowing by the time you actually get to work. So, when you're at work, you've been already up for an hour or so or two hours, and you're raring to go where everyone else is still wiping sleep out of their eyes.
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I know there are a lot of people who like to get very involved in their characters, but I, personally, find it too involved. I just like to do it as a job - and it's my job to make it look real.
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I wouldn't say Bond is an ideal figure, no. The character has been performed in so many different ways that people go, "Oh, that's an interesting take on Bond."
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I work out two, two and a half hours a day.
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If there's one thing that we're very good at as humans, it's remembering the bad stuff. For some reason, it's always the pain that gets you.
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A lot of the stuff you do as an actor - or I do, because I can't speak for everyone - is not always consciously thought out. A lot of the time, for me, it's actually just feeling stuff, and it happens all in the moment and your body reacts.
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I just loved the coolness of [Sean] Connery's Bond. He just sort of oozes cool.
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With Superman, there are certain limitations for an actor. You can't go past certain boundaries because then you cease to be what the character is.
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I prefer more of the modern stuff - just because I can associate with the imagery more.
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My mother is such an incredibly strong woman. She raised a family of five boys extremely well. She made us all strong, loving, caring people. We all support each other. I'm really thankful to her.
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Getting the role like this is such awonderful opportunity... I remember looking in the mirror and going 'I'm superman'.
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At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.
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If you've got nothing else, passion will get you through.
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My fame? Truly I don't consider myself famous...long way to go yet. But if anyone does ask for an autograph it's a wonderful feeling.
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I'm loyal to a fault. I may have learned that from my mother.
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There is a story that you have to tell within a certain amount of time, and you can only show so much of the character. So as much as the script is born from the source material, there are certain limitations.
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I'm training two-and-a-half hours a day, pushing my body beyond its normal limits, putting on a lot of muscle mass and just making myself look like Superman.
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Playing an icon [superman], you don't try to be an icon because that defeats the purpose. The responsibility attached is enormous, and the realization that it actually really, really matters meant that I wanted to put the most amount of work into representing the character properly.
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The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story.
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Not every job is a good job.
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