I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go

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.

Sometimes the most difficult thing is to be able to see the most obvious thing!

Ye might not know this about me…”

I fell in love with the pageant world. People that don't compete in pageants, I think they have a negative feeling for them, but really, they are incredible.

Quit dwelling on other people's stories and make up some of your own.

Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.

Good people strengthen themselves ceaselessly

Persons who insist to themselves that under one set of conditions only can they lead interesting and satisfying lives lay themselves open to bitter disappointments and frustrations.

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

I don't think Mike Tyson's a bad guy. I think the people, the media, makes him out to be a bad guy.

I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!