I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.

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.

Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can’t be replaced by anything else.

Lewis had experienced more trauma than most of his modern readers ever will.

Life tells the most beautiful stories.

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea I wanted to be a cartoonist - or something that involved Indian ink, at any rate.

The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind.

I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home.

The Czech movies, the quality movies, are trying to show the life in the country as it is, in an entertaining way, while in America, the majority of movies are wonderful fairy tales.

If you spend too much time being like everybody else, you decrease your chances of coming up with something different.

My father was funnier than me. My father was Richard Pryor-funny. I'm just a better businessman.