When I was young I used to have this thing where I wanted to see everything I used to think 'How can I die without seeing every inch of this world?'

I think it's a real danger, as an actor, when you try to make some statement through your career about what the business should be doing or ultimately what your image should be or how you want to be perceived. I look at every project that comes along and say, "Is this something I can sink my teeth into and can do a good job on?" That's really how I choose roles.

(Acting) certainly comes-100 percent-from the need to be loved. Any actor who says this isn't true is lying.

I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.

I've never tried to reach a certain demographic of an audience or try to say: OK, now I'm going to do this type of film to transition myself into more adult roles. Or a romantic hero. Or whatever it may be.

Being dubbed as a hunk sort of annoys me. It gives me a yucky feeling.

We're at risk of losing this iconic species for all time. Once it's stripped of its natural instincts, it's no longer a tiger. But there's a lot of species like that. The more intriguing thing, throughout Asia, a lot of these countries are selling off their jungle-and-forest rights for oil and for paper-and-pulp companies.