Ryan Kwanten

Ryan Kwanten: Obviously you've got to have the talent but what I think is so important in this town [Hollywood] as well is to have resilience and tenacity, you've got to be able to deal with rejection, more so than any other job. Even in a good year you're still getting rejected more than 90 per cent of the time.

Ryan Kwanten: To be a man means more than having muscles; there's so much more to being a stand-up guy. I always loved that Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: 'What lies behind us and what lies before us is small matter compared to what lies within us.'

Ryan Kwanten: I'm confident with who I am. I know what I'm capable of, and without sounding like an egomaniac, I have no problems quashing anyone's expectations. Whenever they say I can't do something, it just inspires me more to do it. If somebody tells me that's my pigeonhole, I guarantee you I'll break out of that.