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    • Sam: (Explaining what he was like before he was accepted into NIDA) I had dreadlocks and I thought [playwright] Chekhov was on the starship Enterprise. In hindsight, I was a sponge. That bravery gets you far, and then it gets knocked out of you and you start doubting things. You need to surround yourself with people who make you stronger.
    • Worthington: (on 'Terminator Salvation') It was dark, there is no humor. That is what we set out to do, It's kind of humbling the way they've described your performance against Christian Bales, but we have no control over that. We just have try and do the best character we can do at that time. I can nitpick with the best of them, man, and go down the list of things I saw on IMDb where they found holes in it and go, "You ARE f*cking right. If there was a big ten-ton robot coming outside that gas station, surely we would f*cking hear it!" And I missed that! So I go, "I gotta be a bit better when I'm looking through my scripts!" So that kind of raises my games a bit, 'cause I feel like an idiot for not saying it to McG.
    • Worthington: (on his role in 'Clash of the Titans') Oh I want to do it exactly the same. That guy's gonna come after me…no, I had a take on Perseus that I said to Louie and he went with it and the studio kind of liked my take, and we'll see if it works.
    • Worthington: (On 'Avatar') Yeah. You see the playback in 3D. 3D for James Cameron is like digital for Danny Boyle. That's just the format James Cameron likes. He believes it brings the audience more into the screen. It's not ooga-booga, it's literally you're looking around shit. And with it being photorealistic it actually pings in a lot better. Your brain starts to buy it. It doesn't get distracted and distanced. You believe you're on Pandora.
    • Worthington: (on 'Avatar') It's gotta' hell of a lotta' hype. I read all what was said yesterday about the trailer. I can see their point, but as I said, it's not meant to be built for an Apple Mac, it's built for IMAX, it's built for 3D, that's what he's designed it for. James Cameron designed it to bring people back to the cinema. It's interesting that he's released that trailer and the next day, he shows it on IMAX. It's one extreme to the other. We get the criticism and then we get the rave reviews of what it really looks like in its own formula. That's obviously going to get people to think and go, "Damn right! I'm going to go and see this at the cinema." Jim has always said to me that he wants to bring people back to the movies, and he's a smart enough man for that to be tactical. For better or worse, James Cameron comes off to me as a bit of a benevolent dictator. The way the cast of Avatar spoke at San Diego Comic-Con from prepared notes struck this home for me.
    • Worthington: Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that. I think if I changed, my mates are going to kick me in the ass. I'm 32 years old. If I was 22, it probably could go to your head, but as far as I'm concerned, as long as it doesn't affect my work and I can keep producing a quality that gets you the work with the likes of James Cameron and McG, then I'm doing okay.
    • Worthington: (on the Terminator Franchise) Well, I reacquainted myself with the movies, obviously, before we started, but I would have been actually 15 or something when Terminator 2 came out. So you remember the liquid man, of course, and that was revolutionary for this time, going through the helicopter and all that. But I think what they do is they showcase how good a storyteller Jim is.
    • Sam: A mate of mine told me recently, "It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington." I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.
    • Sam: I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
    • Sam: Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
    • Sam: I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on Big Brother.
    • Sam: (on being accepted into NIDA) When I told my dad I'd been accepted, he fell out of a hammock because I think he thought he was going to have to pay for it.
    • Sam: (on getting his picture taken) I feel like an idiot. But you suck it up, and think, 'Well, this will help sell the movie.
    • Sam: (about auditioning for James Bond) I read every single book, saw every film I could and did everything to prepare myself. I wasn't wasting anyone's time; I gave it the best I could. I think it's amazingly good-going to get where I did.
    • Sam: (about kissing Erik Thomson in a scene from 'Somersault') No offence to Erik, but it was like kissing a dog.

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