In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.

I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.

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

I wasn't actually going to see the original film [Lord of the Ring], because I didn't think it was possible that a film could represent the books appropriately. So I was protesting, and I wasn't going to see them. And then my family all took a jaunt together, the entire family, to see the movies, and were like, "What, you're just going to stay home?" So I saw the movies and was thoroughly impressed that Peter Jackson managed to make my vision of the book come to life, as well as my sister's and my father's, and my aunt's and my uncle's, everyone's.

I love my home. It's the only thing I really spend money on. I don't really spend a lot of money on anything else. No fancy cars. No designer clothes.

In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.

I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me, because they assumed things about my mental capacity or my physical willingness based on the way I look.