Jai Courtney

“I would much rather have a couple of hundred grams of chicken in the afternoon than neck a shake. You're better off just keeping your diet relatively lean and eating simply.”

“I don't know if I'm an action star or if that's just how things are shaping up. I would hate to be boxed into that forever, but it's probably just a strength as far as my type goes, and I'm fine with that.”

“I wish I did something like yoga or Pilates. All the people I know who do it tell me it's incredible.”

“It's funny: a lot of roles I do read for mention physical presence - like, 'built like a quarterback' - and for me, it's pretty boring because I don't want that to be the most important thing. I'm not trying to be Dwayne Johnson.”

“For 'The Terminator,' I was asked to drop a bit of weight to get less physically imposing because it wasn't about an athletic build; the build they were looking for was something more unassuming or boyish. And it was tough!”

“I was always realistic about the fact I wanted to be involved with big films.”

“With 'Divergent' and 'Insurgent,' there isn't great emphasis on uniformity; it's a vigilante military, the state is in disarray, and there is no reference point for authenticity, so it's just weapons work and circumstantial fighting.”

“I started coming to L.A. as often as I could, for three months on and three months off, because immigration kicks you out after 90 days.”

“I was a bit of a show-off in school and loved playing dress-up, and my passion for it just grew as I got older.”

“If you get just a bit of exercise in before every meal, you'll really see a difference.”

“I'm not someone who likes to live in the gym.”

“Auditioning for a couple of years, 99 per cent of the time you are doing an American accent.”

“It's a funny thing because I don't want to wish away my privacy. Do I want 'Terminator Genisys' to explode? Absolutely. Do I want to take my career to the next level? Absolutely? You have to trade some things for that. It's all about how you conduct yourself and what you make of the experience.”

“The last time I played rugby, I busted my nose bad, and that's incentive not to get down and dirty in the park anymore.”

“My mum is a school teacher and my dad is an electrician.”

“I'm not someone who has a lengthy attention span, and that applies to my exercise routine as well.”

“I was always dressing up as a kid in the backyard, building some sort of fort and having battles against imaginary enemies. It's often that same feeling when you're pretending for a living, but it's with bigger toys.”

“I kind of missed out on those years when a lot of my friends did big backpacking trips around Europe and that sort of thing. So to be able to travel and see parts of the world on the job is kind of a double whammy.”

“Ideally, really ideally, you want to get to a place where you can have creative control over the material you do - choices, at least, anyway. And you want your choice of script and role. But do you really want your life to revolve around trying to maintain your privacy?”

“To be given a lead role in something as cool and fresh and crazy as 'Spartacus' was a real thrill. That had a lot to do with the evolution of my ambition as well.”