Well you just have to own it, I suppose. Own the character, which is difficult.

I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything.

I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body.

Some people would say I've made it now.

My life at the moment is a bit like my wardrobe. Organised chaos.

Id love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the 70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.

I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.

I do regard myself as very lucky.

I would love to direct a feature and have Robert Connolly produce it. That would be really fab.

I've ended up spending more time in front of a camera than on stage, but the stage is where I come from.

Acting, to me, is being given the freedom and ability to play, and that's - that's what I love most about it. I feel very comfortable in playing, whether it be in front of a camera or on stage.

Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people - the ones who really belong in your life - will come to your. And stay.

Flowers are prettiest where they are watered the most.

The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience.

I am an artist first and a photographer second.

A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

That's my job. To imagine harder than you can.

I have in mind repeated statements by Japanese military men containing threats against other states.

I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.

He will be the last to discover the disgrace of his house.

I was a bit of a tomboy, so I played softball and basketball. Then I was also a cheerleader. And I played flute too.