The philosophies behind meditation are very current today and are a way of finding some sort of peace.

I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

I just keep pinching myself that that's my wife.

When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her.

The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?

I trained for three years at drama school to be an actor - not a celebrity.

Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.