I was fortunate enough to be one of those stories where I was scouted on the street by somebody and actually refused to go to the agency, and was approached on different occasions and finally kind of caved and said, 'OK, I'll try it and see what happens.

I have two roommates, so it's a challenge to keep the house the way I like.

I think doing a female Elf in the Woodland realm was a bit safer, because we haven't met one of those yet.

That is the greatest source of my anxiety on this film [The Hobbit], is that I'm going to be lynched.

A month and a half after my first audition, I won the role on Lost.

I definitely come down on the spiritual side. I think very few things in life happen by chance.

I haven't sat down and memorized the language of Elvish, and anyone who does that is crazy!