A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.

I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.

I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.

I'm amazed that things have panned out the way they have. I always say I'm so lucky, though my mum always says, 'You make your own luck.'

Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.

I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.

Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.

People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.

I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

We have to make good use of the time we have. That simple. We have to wake up every day, knowing that it's not just an ordinary day. We have to take the moment, seize each day.

Dyslexia is not due to a lack of intelligence, it's a lack of access. It's like, if you're dyslexic, you have all the information you need, but find it harder to process.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

The World will give you hopeless vanity, but what will you give the World?

God can change our circumstances, but sometimes He waits for us to show real desire for change as well as our faith in Him.

No one can move without some leadership.

Next time I'll pat you on the freaking back for stating the obvious.

If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!

Ali’s got a left, Ali’s got a right, if he hits you once, you’re asleep for the night

There's much you can't change, but there's something important you can change: you.

Count your blessings. Every time I am doing bad I count my blessings. And I always lose count. Try that sometime.

For me, cooking is very connected to my family and friends.