One of the great pleasures of working in Middle Earth is you get to be another being.

To impress me, a guy has to be completely unaffected by my presence. If he wants to talk to me, talk to me; if he doesn't, don't.

You can't have a movie with a group of people that are significant players in the story, that push forward the plot, without introducing at least one or two of them.

I always wear something slightly masculine.

I just don't think that a lot of the time the messages we send kids prepare them for real life.

If you watch a film from beginning to end, with no women in it, it's really difficult.

My character is different from all of the Elves you've met before, in that she's really young. And I keep telling journalists this because I've really focused on that in my performance. I'm trying to distinguish her from all of these incredibly sage and wise Elves that have lived for thousands of years.