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?

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.

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.

The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.

Irresolution on the schemes of life I which offer themselves to our choice and inconstancy in pursuing them are the greatest causes of all unhappiness.

I've been collaborating with Ira Schickman on some songs, and there will be many other, great musicians involved.

People expect me to do the classics, and it is a lot like playing a favorite song.

To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.

The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided.

When I see grace in a woman, that's very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm.

When you turn on the news, they don't say, "Hey, 2 Million kids went to school safely today...40,000 flights took place without incident." They don't say that.

A spiritually illumined soul lives in the world, yet is never contaminated by it.

In leaving negativity behind, you find something beautiful.