Top 60 Henry Cavill Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “As an outside; don’t worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.”

— Henry Cavill

2. “People say, “Age is just a number.” A lot of times it’s not just a number. It’s actually a real and true sign of someone’s maturity. But in this case, she’s fantastic.”

— Henry Cavill

3. “Not every job is a good job.”

— Henry Cavill

4. “If someone’s trying to intimidate me, male or female, I don’t respect them enough to be intimidated.”

— Henry Cavill

5. “Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don’t want to go.”

— Henry Cavill

6. “If you’ve got nothing else, passion will get you through.”

— Henry Cavill

7. “No matter what era we’re in, we need hope.”

— Henry Cavill

8. “I never thought of myself as unlucky. When you aim high, it’s tough to get there unless something really fortunate happens.”

— Henry Cavill

9. “When I first met my girlfriend, I was super intimidated. I wanted to impress her. I was thinking, Don’t mess this up, man. You’ve gotta play your cards exactly right.”

— Henry Cavill

10. “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.”

— Henry Cavill

11. “My version of Superman is essentially of a guy who has spent his whole life alone.”

— Henry Cavill

12. “If you have superpowers and no one can actually cause you any physical harm, then everything has to be very thought-through. You almost have to fake at being human.”

— Henry Cavill

13. “I’m a giant softy, for sure, but I honestly think these days it’s probably considered more masculine to be emotionally connected.”

— Henry Cavill

14. “Everyone doubts themselves. It’s just a matter of admitting it or not.”

— Henry Cavill

15. “You treat anyone normally, and they’ll treat you normally back.”

— Henry Cavill

16. “A lot of the stuff you do as an actor – or I do, because I can’t speak for everyone – is not always consciously thought out. A lot of the time, for me, it’s actually just feeling stuff, and it happens all in the moment and your body reacts.”

— Henry Cavill

17. “It’s difficult to judge other actors, because as an actor you’re looking at different things than what an audience is looking at.”

— Henry Cavill

18. “I’m loyal to a fault. I may have learned that from my mother.”

— Henry Cavill

19. “Nature is a definite thing. But nurture is just as powerful. It can really mess with you.”

— Henry Cavill

20. “I read mostly historical fiction – lots of stuff set in ancient Rome and ancient Greece. I also liked sci-fi and fantasy: David Gemmell, Raymond E. Feist. It’s a nice escape from the world. As much as I do love real-life stories, they can often make you hurt in a way I’d rather not hurt.”

— Henry Cavill

21. “At boarding school there wasn’t much time for much of anything except education.”

— Henry Cavill

22. “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.”

— Henry Cavill

23. “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?”

— Henry Cavill

24. “Superman isn’t moody or brooding or aggressive...”

— Henry Cavill

25. “I suppose that when I’m building a character, it’s usually related to what their family is like and who their parents are, as well as how I grew up – that nurture side.”

— Henry Cavill

26. “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.”

— Henry Cavill

27. “I go to work, I do a job, I play a role, and then I go home. I don’t wear a cape at home. I’m not an invulnerable alien at home.”

— Henry Cavill

28. “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.”

— Henry Cavill

29. “I like to go full bore into something. If you have a backup plan, then you’ve already admitted defeat.”

— Henry Cavill

30. “I’m from a family of six men, so I’m bound to be physical.”

— Henry Cavill

31. “I wouldn’t necessarily be star-struck. I haven’t been yet. But I don’t know what happens in the future – maybe one day I will be. You never know.”

— Henry Cavill

32. “When you give your all to something and you’re hitting a wall, it just feels so wrong.”

— Henry Cavill

33. “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.”

— Henry Cavill

34. “The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last.”

— Henry Cavill

35. “If there is some sort of trouble at home, kids don’t think that James Bond is going to come save their mum from their dad, or their dad from their mum. They don’t think, “Bond is going to come and save me.” Superman is a different sort of idealized figure.”

— Henry Cavill

36. “My mother and father have also raised five boys so they know there’s only so much that can be controlled.”

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37. “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.”

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38. “I didn’t see a lot of comic books growing up.”

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39. “I hate to say “found himself” – it sounds so ridiculous.”

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40. “If I spend all my time being upset about having lost a job, then the next however many auditions I have are going to be useless.”

— Henry Cavill

41. “Ideally you do want people to treat you professionally in return, but not everyone necessarily does that.”

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42. “I remember going, “I’m really excited about this – I really want it to happen. It would be a wonderful opportunity.” But if something doesn’t happen, then it doesn’t happen. My mother and father sort of raised me to look at things that way.”

— Henry Cavill

43. “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.”

— Henry Cavill

44. “I work out two, two and a half hours a day.”

— Henry Cavill

45. “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.”

— Henry Cavill

46. “My mother works in a bank, and my dad is the head of my management team and also works in finance.”

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47. “Why can men no longer be best friends? This is so stupid. Today if you show two guys being best friends they end up giving out an image that they’re gay. But guys don’t always need to be drinking beer, fighting in pubs or pulling women by the hair. They may have a deep affection.”

— Henry Cavill

48. “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.”

— Henry Cavill

49. “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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50. “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.”

— Henry Cavill