I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything.

I'm proud of Lord of the Rings. I think it's a once in a lifetime role, and a once in a lifetime film. It was made with so much care and passion and meticulous detail and everybody was so behind it.

Listen to people and treat people as you find them. There's an inherent goodness in most people. Don't pre-judge people - that was me Mam's advice anyway.

I sometimes find that playing the bad guy, or villains, or psychopaths tend to be much more psychologically rewarding. And you can really push it, you can push the limits, and get away with it.

If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.

My family thought the fascination with acting was just another fad.

Lord of the Rings was just so much enjoyment. It was over about the space of a year that I was filming. It's one of the most enjoyable things I've ever done, so emotional.

I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy.

I'm still Sean that me mates went to school with, not Sean the film star. And that's the way I prefer to be.

It was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal journey for both characters.

To be honest, you have to do a big Hollywood film to get enough money to do a good independent film!

She will rise. With a spine of steel and a roar like thunder, she will rise.

Only those who believe can achieve what others merely dream about. However, without these same dreams we will achieve little. Dream AND believe to ACHIEVE!!!

It's like looking through a microscope your whole life, " he (Justin) said. "You miss the whole picture. Sometimes you need to get lost in order to discover anything.

If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them

I think of myself as a global citizen.

Software was the key element that would determine how useable and how broadly applicable the machine was.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.

Nature endows us with the feeling that moves us in all our musical experiences; we might call her gift instinct.

In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.