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

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

I can't stop while there are lives to be saved.

Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.

I like any dog that makes me look good when it stands next to me.

And what if, in order to keep on living, I have to continue to accept myself?

Roger Federer moves like a whisper and executes like a wrecking ball. It is simply impossible to explain how he does what he does.

Charles looked at her thoughtfully. "People talk to you," he said. "That could be useful.

Ambition hath but two steps: the lowest, blood; the highest, envy.

[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.