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I was overweight when I went to school. In fact, I was overweight when I left, just taller. Fatty Cavill was the nickname. I mean, no one wants to be Fatty Cavill.

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Henry Cavill
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: May 5
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Henry William Dalgliesh Cavill
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I hate to say found himself - it sounds so ridiculous.
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I often find during a day of shooting I will speak in an American accent all day long when I'm doing dialogue. At the end of the day, it often takes an effort when I'm talking to my fiancee to bring my English back just because you're so used to speaking that way.
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A large amount of constant activity will get things going. For example, training in the morning will have everything, all the juices flowing by the time you actually get to work. So, when you're at work, you've been already up for an hour or so or two hours, and you're raring to go where everyone else is still wiping sleep out of their eyes.
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The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last.
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I'm training two-and-a-half hours a day, pushing my body beyond its normal limits, putting on a lot of muscle mass and just making myself look like Superman.
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There is a story that you have to tell within a certain amount of time, and you can only show so much of the character. So as much as the script is born from the source material, there are certain limitations.
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As much as I do love real-life stories they can often make you hurt in a way I'd rather not hurt. . . . For some reason, it's always the pain that gets you.
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Superman isn't moody or brooding or aggressive.
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I know I can't make everyone happy, but I know I can do the most justice I can possibly do to a character, or any character, if I put my all into it. That's the choice you have to make.
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I'm from a family of six men, so I'm bound to be physical.
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Whether someone else would have played Superman better or worse would be up for a lot of debate on the internet forums, I'm sure.
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I never thought of myself as unlucky. When you aim high, it's tough to get there unless something really fortunate happens.
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Regrets are something you can't really have as an actor, because ultimately you'll end up destroying yourself there's a lot of disappointment in this business.
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People have this belief that actors are able to go out there and say, 'Oh I choose this job,' but most of the time we're just taking the job we can get. We don't just get offered thousands of jobs we might earn one job a year and that's the one we'll take because we've got to pay the rent.
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Getting the role like this is such awonderful opportunity... I remember looking in the mirror and going 'I'm superman'.
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As much as everyone says that Superman is good, a lot of other people might say that that's why they find him boring A lot of Batman fans might say that.
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