I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.

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.

I'm not singing for the future I'm not dreaming of the past I'm not talking of the fist time I never think about the last

Charity is appeased when some rich person gives money to the poor while justice asks why one person can be that rich when so many are poor.

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.

And I hope she does not live in a dark world. Because even the most terrible loss doesn't have to make you darker; it can make you deeper.

Mine is really - Ziggy Stardust, characters, "Let's Dance." That's me in the American.

There's so much information that there is disinformation.

I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.

Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?" "You closed the school and burnt all the books." "Ah, so I did.

Human nature is fond of novelty.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.