I trained for three years at drama school to be an actor - not a celebrity.

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.

Love meant hope. Without love, life held no promise.

Life went on. Death went on. The war went on.

Design and produce yourself according to your dreams

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Even if your family isn't quite there for you, find the people that support you and hang on to those people and try to let go of those that try to take you down.

With respect to the pledge I made that if you like your plan you can keep it. The way I put that forward unequivocally ended up not being accurate.

Mr. Bush is flaky, incompetent, and the most dangerous American president in a generation.

One thing I do know, you can't change hatred by showing those people that they're wrong about us.

Make a way, find a way or get out of the way.

I don't give a damn what the fans think cause, quite frankly, I know what the fans want better than they do.