Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.

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.

Monkeys can't talk, stupid!

Nobody loves me but mama, and she may be jivin too.

If the selflessness of phenomena is analyzed and if this analysis is cultivated, it causes the effect of attaining nirvana. through no other cause does one come to peace.

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

I used to tell moms that for the sake of their well-being they had to put themselves first. But I know now that's not always possible.

If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do ; try to be shocking and dirty.

I always do things before I go on a case and when I leave a case. I even do that when I'm out on the road.

Whenever people tell you they are going to wipe the slate clean, it's your slate they mean to wipe.

To be a different kind of parent, you don't just need a different parenting philosophy. You need a very different view of what a child actually is.

My life didnʹt need to be on the line for me to enjoy dessert.