I enjoy the idea that even though I'm resting, I'm accomplishing something by reading a book.

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

I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me.

Every woman is after a kind of classy image.

I don't want to shield kids from reality.

I think women in Hollywood who don't do Botox and plastic surgery are revered. I revere them... My plan is to never go there. I'm too vain to get plastic surgery because I don't like how it looks, and I want to look my best.

When I was little, I attended five different elementary schools. My parents are very restless people, which is probably where I get my own nomadic lifestyle from.

I lived in grass huts in a jungle in the Philippines for three weeks with tribal people.

I always wear something slightly masculine.

People were fed up with reality shows about midgets getting married and weird Jerry Springer talk shows. There had been a real dry spell of intelligent family-oriented viewing: the type of program that Mom, Dad and the kids can all watch together. With 'Lost,' there are just so many characters for people to invest in.

If one day a TV series comes into my head, and that is what I want to write, I'll write it. It just depends what story is in my brain at the time.

I like to be around people who make me laugh. It's one of my favorite things on a set. I hate it when people take themselves serious in a film set.

I'm a bit of a pick-pocket on-set. If something is small enough to go in my pocket, and it will be neat memorabilia, it's gone.

I adore having people over to my home. My number one reason I love that is because I love to see people at ease with each other.

I'm surrounded by people who care about me and love me. I have a great job. I have wonderful roommates who take care of me. I have a family who adores me.

There's a massive part of me that can be bold and courageous...very strong and very assertive and independent, almost to a fault sometimes.

I like fantasy. I like worlds where sometimes you need the special effects to make it come alive, but it's not so fun acting it.

Believe me, there is nothing more rewarding than making Peter Jackson chuckle.

For a human audience, seeing things that are slightly more otherworldly and beyond human power is always really fun and exciting to watch.

I do feel like I'm at ease in my own skin when I find an androgynous balance.