Chris Hemsworth

“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.”

“My daughter is full energy, like my wife and I, and strong-minded and has an opinion, like we do. And my boys, one's a bit more calm and chill, and the other is much more sensitive to things. You see this right away, when they're first born. One cried, one didn't, with the boys.”

“I'm lucky. 'Thor' has kicked off everything I'm doing, and it's been the greatest thing for me, but I am aware that I need to mix it up a bit.”

“I grew up in a culture of motorbikes. So I like racing just fine. Quite a lot, actually. That was when I was a boy in Australia. And I never really made the jump to cars after that.”

“I'm busier than I've ever been, but you can go through the lists of people who are bang up there one minute, and then just disappear.”

“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.”

“First time I looked at a Formula One car in person, I just stared at the cockpit, figuring I'd never get in there. The drivers wear the whole car like a tight-fitting suit.”

“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.”

“Having a director who is also an actor makes for that very relaxed way of working and it's empowering.”

“I entered the work force cleaning breast pumps at a pharmacy! It was a part-time gig while I was at school... no interview required.”

“For three years, I had embarrassing haircuts.”

“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.”

“As a kid, I loved any fantasy.”

“I hadn't read comics really before coming in to shooting the original 'Thor.' During that and beforehand, I read stacks and got my head around it all. We reference, especially when we were putting the script together before we started shooting, other stories.”

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

“I can remember watching 'Lord of the Rings' and being truly regretful that I wasn't a being in that world.”

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

“My dad talks about the times when we'd play backyard cricket: If I got bowled out, I'd just refuse to let go of the bat and swing it at anyone who tried to take it away from me. I like to think that's been tempered a bit over the years.”

“We were living in California, and it just wasn't conducive for the lifestyle that we wanted with kids. Los Angeles is tricky to get around, there's paparazzi to deal with, and I had this feeling that I just wanted to move back to Australia.”

“It wasn't until 'Thor' that I started lifting weights. It was all pretty new to me.”