"The Avengers" star, Chris Evans, has said that he wished he was Captain America. The Hollywood actor also said that he greatly admires his character Captain America Steve Rogers.

In a "Flicks and Bits" interview, Evans said that he truly respects Captain America's drive to live up to his heroic ideals. Well, his wish finally came true as he celebrates his 31^st birthday.

Christopher Robert "Chris" Evans was born on June 13, 1981 in Massachusetts and then raised in the Boston suburb of Sudbury. His mother, Lisa Marie, is an artistic director at the Concord Youth Theater and his father, G. Robert "Bob" Evans III, is a dentist. He is the nephew of U.S. Congressman Mike Capuano.

Evans has two sisters, Carly, a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, a high school drama and English teacher named Shanna and a younger brother, Scott, who was featured on the ABC soap opera "One Life to Live." His mother is of half Italian and half Irish ancestry. Evans was raised a Catholic and he graduated from Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School. Evans is also a supporter of marriage equality.

"I love the character, Steve Rogers, he's everything I wish I could be as a man, you know?" Evans said. He's good for the sake of good, and that's a fun character to try to portray," the actor shared.

The heartthrob actor went on to reveal that one of "The Avengers" key themes is how Captain America deals with culture once he arrives in the present day where the world around him is a completely different place with a lot of technologies that put blocks between people.

"In the '40s there's maybe a bit more of a direct, honest, sincerity to the way people behaved. I think human interaction breeds manners, you know? This is a world Steve Rogers isn't quite accustomed to, it's a different world that he has to get used to," Evans said.

"I think with The Avengers, even more than in Captain America: The First Avenger, Steve Rogers has some issues, some conflicts and some trouble with the fact that he is a man out of time. But he puts that second and the mission first. He's selfless," Evans further shared. That explains why a lot of Marvel fans, not only Evans, like this extraordinary superhero.

Cast member Chris Evans poses at the world premiere of the film "Marvel's The Avengers" in Hollywood, California April 11, 2012.

Captain America actor Chris Evans reportedly struggled to get rid of his muscles and lose weight for his role as scrawny Steve Rogers before his transformation

Chris Evans

Evans made his screen debut in 2000 in “The Newcomers.” His most recent films, not including “Captain America: The First Avenger,” include “Push” (2009), “The Losers” (2010), “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” (2010) and “What’s Your Number?” (2011). He is also known as Johnny Storm a.k.a. Human Torch from the “Fantastic Four” films. In “The Avengers,” Evans plays Steve Rogers, a World War II veteran who was enhanced to the peak of human physicality by an experimental serum, the Super Soldier Serum.

Actor Chris Evans arrives at the 2011 MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles June 5, 2011.

A touching video of a father surprising his son while dressed as Captain America went viral, but YouTube viewers aren’t the only ones moved by the reunion. Disney stumbled upon the viral home footage and invited the two to walk the red carpet on Saturday in New York City for a recent premier of “The Avengers.”

Captain America (left) played by Chris Evans, was a WWII veteran whose human physicality was enhanced by an experimental serum.

Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) and Captain America (Chris Evans) of 'The Avengers'

U.S. actor Chris Evans arrives for the premiere of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World at the Empire Theatre in London August 18, 2010.

Actor Chris Evans and representatives from Marvel Comics and the movie 'Captain America: The First Avenger' ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, July 11, 2011.