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.

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.

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 life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.

Yesterday misspent can't be recall'dVanity makes beauty contemptibleWisdom is more valuable than riches.

I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God

My father prayed because he had a good friend with whom to share the problems of the day.

You're an island of reality in an ocean of diarrhea.

Time, the human dimension, which makes us everything we are.

The Devil doesn't fear austerity but holy obedience.

Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress.

I grow numb; I grow stiff. How shall I break up this numbness which discredits my sympathetic heart?

I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.