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

The world is full of opportunities, and I want to try as many as I possibly can.

The people on my mum's side of the family are atheist intellectuals who are ueber-proper. My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life.

The difference in my body from pre-pregnancy to post-baby was night and day. I didn't have the strength, I didn't have the flexibility, I didn't have the stamina, I didn't have the mobility. I felt like I was handicapped.

I'm very picky when it comes to men. I come across a man who I'm really attracted to about once every five years.

I can still go grocery shopping and not get mobbed. But when I was in South Africa this summer, I had people asking for autographs, and that scared me.

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