People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.

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.

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.

She wondered which was worse—living your whole life staring at yourself or waiting your whole life for someone to stare back at you.

Lost in these imaginary illusions I forgot my destiny – that of the hunted.

The English have a proverb, 'Conscience makes cowboys of us all'.

Adversity is only sand on your track to prevent you from skidding.

When the husband and wife are healthy, and free from inherited weaknesses and diseases that might be transmitted with injury to their offspring the use of contraceptives is to be condemned.

In the season of white wild roses We two went hand in hand: But now in the ruddy autumn Together already we stand.

Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender, social class, race.

Free education for all children in public schools... Combination of education with industrial production

I believe in small government and people taking care of themselves.

Madonna has an incredible face. A face you would like to look at blown up 50 feet high!