I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love

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.

Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.

Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.

We give kudos to people who have succeeded. We don't care in what they succeeded as long as they succeeded. The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.

The next step in meditation is not just to focus, but to stop thought completely without having to focus; you gain a tremendous amount of personal power.

Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.

Do not listen to the killjoys who tell you never to eat oysters in months that do not contain the letter R: May, June, July, August, Octoba. You know.

It's my experience that the fluidity of sexuality with younger people is more accepted.

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

I giggle when I put myself down. It's just funny to me.

The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it.