Chris Hemsworth quotes:

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.

At home in Victoria, we have three dogs, Tosh and Lucy, they're half Blue Heelers, and then there's Torrin a little Maltese terrier. She gets more attention in the house than anyone else! Yes, I miss them a lot.

Chris [Evans] sent us a text that The Avengers assemble at such and such bar at 9 on Saturday night. That was a good group effort.

I love that Viking era, but also they're a fatalistic people and that dictated their fearlessness in battle and approach to life.

I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it's great to be a part of and watch.

I have seen 'Thor', yeah. It's fantastic. Being that close to something, it's often pretty hard to watch yourself, but the film in so many ways is so impressive that I was swept along with it like an audience member, and that's a pretty good sign.

Growing up I always loved films that transport you to another world and has things you never see in every day life.

People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for others, and anyone in any profession whose concern is the welfare for other people instead of the individual, are inspiring and important.

It is often difficult to watch yourself onscreen, especially 60-feet high. As an actor, it is an uncomfortable experience.

I'm not into watching stuff I did last week, let alone three or four years ago.

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

For me, life is about experience and being a good person.

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.

Each time you put the muscle back on, your body has that muscle memory and wants to hang on to it, so you just have be well underfed and over-trained to get it off and it's exhausting.

Everything shifted for me after 'Rush.' It wasn't as financially successful as other things I'd done, but it gave me more movement, more options, more doors opening, more meetings. All of a sudden, it's, 'Oh, wow! You're an actor!'

Being a superhero is a lot of fun.

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

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.

I grew up in a household with two brothers and we lived in the bush. We were constantly building weapons and forts and things. But I didn't set out to be an action hero.

For three years, I had embarrassing haircuts.

Not often do you approach a character where people know more about him than you do.

I get to stay active and that is my job at the moment, so I can't complain.

I actually find it harder to act in the scenes where there's not much happening, say having a milkshake in the diner. That is far harder to do than straight scenes where there's a drama going on and you have something to do

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.

My dad works in child protection and he's spent many, many years in that line of work.

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 like to explore things.

I'd much rather put on weight than have to lose weight.

These cybercrime fighters are regarded as the superheroes. They're highly intelligent and have this alien-like, advanced-type knowledge within themselves. It's something that impressed me every day.

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.

Strong female leads are important.

As a kid, you run around the house pretending to be a superhero, and now to be doing it as a job, I feel very lucky.

You can imagine how the kids teased me, with a name like Chris Hemsworth. 'Kiss Ham'sWart'-that's what they called me. Meaning if there was a piece of ham with an ugly wart on it, I was such a loser I'd probably kiss it. It was endless.

Working with Anthony Hopkins every day is a blessing.

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.

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.

I got a film fairly quickly and felt like I was on a roll. I would walk into auditions sounding like Crocodile Dundee, thinking, 'This is going to be a novelty for them.' Then I realised that there are a million other Australians here, and I should just shut up.

My earliest memories were on the cattle stations up in the Outback. And then we moved back to Melbourne and then back out there and then back again. Probably my most vivid memories were up there in Bulman with crocodiles and buffalo.

I actually find it harder to act in the scenes where there's not much happening, say having a milkshake in the diner. That is far harder to do than straight scenes where there's a drama going on and you have something to do.

For whatever reason, we relate to anything godlike with an English accent. The English are very proud of that. And with anything Roman or gladiators, they have an English accent. For an audience, it is an easy trick to hook people in.

I feel like I'm ready for any dangerous situation that might come my way, provided I have a hammer on me.

The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting.

My father and I are very similar and have a wonderful relationship, but we both stand by our opinions.

Keeping an open mind is always important.

The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel.

My mum always used to say to me that, out of her three boys, 'Chris, you were the girl!' I'd speak to her about far more things (than my brothers would) and far more things than she needed to hear about, too. I was a chatty kid.

As kids, our experiences shape our opinions of ourselves and the world around us, and that's who we become as adults.

Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.

I'd like to think I'm a normal sort of guy, but go to my mum and she'll probably say, 'You know,Chris was always the daughter out of my three boys.'

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.

Being a father is certainly a task...but the best one that I could ever ask for. Being home, being with the family-that's what it's about.

Not often do you approach a character where people know more about him than you do

The opportunity to work with women who are at the top of my list of people I'd want to work with and who are my favorite women to watch on screen, was fantastic.

I think it's important to be aware of different people's styles and how you adapt or change or steal their ideas.

Any time you have someone come up and say they love what you do and they get great joy from it is a very humbling experience.

It's much easier to hate someone on screen, if you actually like them off screen. It's a more enjoyable ride. There's nothing personal about it.

I remember asking one of the [cyber experts], I said, "Knowing what you know, and you exist behind the curtains so to speak, and you see behind the curtain, do you look at the world differently? Do you feel you have an upper hand?" He just started laughing and said, "Man, people have no idea how exposed they are, how vulnerable, and what's possible."

Child abuse is one of those issues that's very difficult to talk about because it's surrounded by guilt and shame and so on, but us avoiding that issue doesn't help those kids in need out there who need support.

I never felt big enough playing Thor. And then people talk about you like you're 9-foot tall and 800 pounds. I'm well aware of the illusion. There's not a second where I go: Yeah, I'm a god.

You have a visceral, physical response to being in [the real] places, and the sights and sounds and the smells just bring something else out in you. You're not having to fake that or imagine that. It's there. It becomes as much an act of something you bounce off as the other people you're working with.

Every film has challenges and all of us are doing it together, all the cast is doing it together so you keep each other motivated I guess and keep each other in check.

I think the idea of a heightened reality and then the fantasy that we're able to be swept up in, and then these larger than life heroes and the possibility of someone much more powerful than we are and greater that can come and save the day, so to speak, is inspiring.

Work all paled into the background as soon as I had a baby.

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

Eating when you're not hungry and taking in that amount of food is exhausting.

As a kid, I loved any fantasy.

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

Here's your opportunity, now you've got to make something of it.

Thereâ??s a lot of pressure playing something that existed for so many years before you were involved, and already has a fan base. I approached it by doing it as well as I can.

I put the costume on and said 'It's not very comfortable, but it looks amazing,' so it's all good.

Well, I'll keep on auditioning and one day maybe I'll go to LA and try out for films there.

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

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