Cavill: "If someone's trying to intimidate me, male or female, I don't respect them enough to be intimidated."

Cavill: "I found very interesting - trying to separate the different facets of Superman in that way. When you're aware of how people perceive you, you can't always remain true to yourself, and that was an interesting thing for me to apply to the character as well - exploring these different facets of his personality while having certain bits of it stripped away."

Cavill: "The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last."

Cavill: "As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success."

Cavill: "It's our job as actors to make it look like it's not manufactured. If you have two actors who understand their characters - and therefore what they are trying to portray - then all they need to do is be the characters and there's a chemistry there."

Cavill: "I work out two, two and a half hours a day."

Cavill: "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."

Cavill: "Everyone doubts themselves. It's just a matter of admitting it or not."

Cavill: "I'm from a family of six men, so I'm bound to be physical."

Cavill: "I work out two, two and a half hours a day. For 'Immortals,' it was body-weight stuff: crunches, pullups, and martial arts-based cardio."

Cavill: "You can train and train until you are blue in the face, but you've got to diet, you've got to have that leanness because if you are not lean, your abs won't show. Of course, the training has to be put in, but then you've to shed all the fat and keep the fat off. And that's how you get an eight pack."

Cavill: "I didn't see a lot of comic books growing up."

Cavill: "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."

Cavill: "I'm loyal to a fault. I may have learned that from my mother."

Cavill: "Playing an icon [superman], you don't try to be an icon because that defeats the purpose. The responsibility attached is enormous, and the realization that it actually really, really matters meant that I wanted to put the most amount of work into representing the character properly."

Cavill: "I will say I was a lot bigger as Superman. A lot bigger. I'm not saying how much. It's modesty about the weight - I've always been worried about my weight - but I also don't want to invite that debate: 'Henry weighs this, so he's the perfect Superman.' Or, 'Henry doesn't weigh this, and therefore he's not believable in the role.'"

Cavil: "I never thought of myself as unlucky. When you aim high, it's tough to get there unless something really fortunate happens."

Cavill: "If I'm talking to someone and they're feeling a certain way, I will definitely tie into that very quickly. You have to learn to read emotions and feelings when you grow up in a family with four brothers - especially if three of them are a lot bigger than you."

Cavill: "If there's one thing that we're very good at as humans, it's remembering the bad stuff. For some reason, it's always the pain that gets you."

Cavill: "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."

Cavill: "I'm a serious geek. I mean I seriously want to own a unicorn when I'm older... or a Pegasus... yeah Pegasus sounds better."

Cavill: "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."

Cavill: "I'm a giant softy, for sure, but I honestly think these days it's probably considered more masculine to be emotionally connected."

Cavill: "My mother is such an incredibly strong woman. She raised a family of five boys extremely well. She made us all strong, loving, caring people. We all support each other. I'm really thankful to her."

Cavill: "I still don't have any crushes on actresses or models. It's always been one of those things with girlfriends. They say, 'Who's on your list?' What do you call it, the Get Out of Jail Free card?"

Cavill: "If people like to see me with my shirt off, it's enormously flattering. But that doesn't mean I'm going to take my shirt off all the time."

Cavill: "Nature is a definite thing. But nurture is just as powerful. It can really mess with you."