Chris Hemsworth credits Dancing with the Stars for making him less self-conscious as an actor

Chris Hemsworth who competed on the Aussie version of Dancing with the Stars about eight years ago, in an interview he did for David Katz at GQ, admitted that the experience has helped make him a less self-conscious actor. "After that show, I could never pull the serious, self-important card again," he said.

Hemsworth finished fifth among ten pairs of Dancing with the Stars contestants. He and partner Abbey Ross managed to last just six weeks into the competition.

Aside from the show, he also thanks older brother Luke for helping him become more grounded even back then when he was still doing soap in Australia. "Back when I was still on the soap, I became incredibly insecure and full of anxiety because I didn't know if I was any good," he Chris disclosed. "I spent years being angsty, constantly telling people I wasn't just part of a soap opera, that I was a real artist. And I remember Luke sort of snapping, telling me to shut up, that he was sick of hearing it."

Chris Hemsworth will be featured on the cover and inside the pages of the January issue of GQ which will be hitting the newsstands beginning today, December 16.

In 2015, Hemsworth is slated to appear as hacker Nicholas Hathaway in director Michael Mann's cyber-thriller Blackhat, as first mate Owen Chase in Ron Howard's biographical thriller In the Heart of the Sea, as up-and-coming anchorman Stone Crandall in Vacation, a remake of the 1983 Chevy Chase-starrer comedy film, and again as god of thunder Thor in Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron.

Hemsworth is married to Spanish actress Elsa Pataky with whom he has three children - daughter India Rose, 2, and twin sons Tristan and Sasha, 8 months. With three kids all under three years of age to go home to, he was asked by Katz how well he is at changing diapers. The manly man actor replied: "I'm good, man. Depends on how messy it is. Sometimes you gotta give 'em a hose-down."