I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.

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.

In real life, the truth is a rarity, while lies are common place.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

Other nations merely change governments as a lady changes dancing partners: Canada contrives to fall in a dead faint every time the music stops.

The whole damn century would've made more sense backwards. Where we ended is worse than where we began.

The prince of darkness is a gentleman.

It is the way you feel that is your point of attraction.

Treating the body is really about treating the mind. It is all psychosomatic - every bit of it. No exceptions.

Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do.

One begins with two people on a stage, and one of them had better say something pretty quick.