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I love getting older! I really believe that a woman doesn't reach her peak until her 40s.

I'm very sensitive. Emotionally, I bruise very easily. I'm a Leo, and this is very characteristic of our sign.

I started to do everything I could to succeed, but found that the more successful I became, the less people liked me.

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

I just really like ants, and I really like science. I was interested and curious about the quantum world and the physics behind how it all works.

I dance around my living room to cheesy '80s aerobics music until I'm sweating really hard!

My son is wonderful. He is amazing.

Life is all about embracing each moment that is given to you.

When I hear the words 'Women should be barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen,' I think, 'What. A. Dream.' There are no negative connotations to it.

I think I can allow myself one child - and from then on, I think I would have to adopt. It makes sense not to add to the population problem.

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

I've not worked with Martin Freeman. I've hung out with him, but I've not worked with him.

I have been a bit of a reluctant actress since the get-go, since the beginning of 'Lost.'

Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.

I had my baby outside in a thunderstorm. It was really romantic.

We're not going to protect the Earth the way we need to protect it if we don't stop making so many babies.

My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's the only place in the house that has a beautiful lush shag rug, which is my favorite.

I am so glad that I get to maintain a relatively down-to-earth lifestyle.

It's very difficult to play opposite nothing. I did it for, like, six years - I ran from an invisible smoke monster for most of my twenties.

When I act, I come away drained. When I write, I come away energized.

In high school, people wanted to find the worst in me.

That is the greatest source of my anxiety on this film [The Hobbit], is that I'm going to be lynched.

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.

Nature inspires us. Not being able to reach out and touch it, or see it, makes me get really antsy.

Peter Jackson has just really earned the right to be Tolkien's torchbearer on screen.

Motherhood is a joy! I have dreamed about being a mother since I was 12 years old, and there's nothing disappointing about it.

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 love the creative end of acting. But I hate fame.

I just like short hair on women; I think it's cool.

I love getting older!

There are some 'Star Treks' I love, and there are some I don't love.

'The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really.

I say no to photographs. When people take my picture, I feel like they've taken a piece of me, and I can't get that back. It's soul-draining.

I'm not a girl who needs to put on a whole face of make-up before I leave the house.

I hated being a flight attendant. I did it for a month and then quit.

I love to dance. Don't get me started, because you will never get me to stop.

I love being outside - that's where I'm the happiest.

I consider acting a day job - it's not my dream; it's not my be-all, end-all.

If your home is peaceful, then you're going to go out in your day peacefully.

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

I used to cry myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because of the way men leered at and disrespected me.

I used to watch actors and say, 'You poor suckers, that job looks miserable.'

I like ambiguity. I think it's so much more interesting to play than an overtly good or an overtly evil person.

I haven't sat down and memorized the language of Elvish, and anyone who does that is crazy!

On 'Ant-Man', I took a rubber stamp from the office of Hank Pym, who's played by Michael Douglas.

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

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

Every other 16-year-old girl wanted to look at bridal magazines; I could not have been more bored with the notion.

When I was a little girl, I dreamed of being an elf.

If you go back to, say, the Brothers Grimm or Roald Dahl, you see so much darkness in children's material.

I think doing a female Elf in the Woodland realm was a bit safer, because we haven't met one of those yet.

I actually write as a passion, as something I actually am more passionate about than acting.

I don't want to shield kids from reality.

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

I've had to find my sanity.

Every woman is after a kind of classy image.

In my world, I don't believe in forever promises. I don't think it's realistic.

A creative project is a moving target. You never end up where you start.

I always wear something slightly masculine.

'The Squickerwonkers' was the story I wrote when I was on 'The Hobbit.' And I brought it to Comic-Con and sold out a thousand copies I had printed.

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

There are so many roles on TV that I don't covet. I see them, and I'm glad I don't have to play them.

Saying 'no' is not hard for me; it's scarier for me to say 'yes.' I'm actually more afraid of commitment than of saying 'no.'

I eventually want to come back to Canada, to disappear, have nobody know me, and just be a writer and do what I want to do.

I have these huge, pointed ears. They're like three times the size of Orlando Bloom's ears. And I think he has ear envy, I love my ears.

The way I've been able to embrace fame is by realizing that celebrity is just a means to send whatever message you want out into the world.

I am an opportunist. When opportunities come, and I see them serving my grander goals in life, I take them.

I'm an actress, but I'm not stupid.

It's not your circumstances that make or break your day. It's your attitude!

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

Outside of acting, the person that I admire the most is my mother.

As an actress, and as a person, I really admire Diane Keaton. She's feisty, strong, beautiful and talented, and intelligent.

I didn't grow up in a home that glorified Hollywood. We didn't watch TV. We didn't have a lot of magazines around.

I definitely come down on the spiritual side. I think very few things in life happen by chance.

I'm a pretty skeptical person, and I'm a realistic person.

A month and a half after my first audition, I won the role on 'Lost.'

I seem to be landing really great locations on a lot of my work. I hope that continues, knock on wood.

Diets are a fool's errand.

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story.

Your mind and soul are the kings of your physique way more than any exercise you do.

I know I can never work in a comedy because I can't keep a goddamn straight face.

'Real Steel' was this lovely little piece where I held a cup of coffee and talked to Hugh Jackman for three weeks. And that sounded kind of nice.

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

My son was three months old when I started filming 'The Hobbit,' and I was still breastfeeding.

I do love 'Star Wars,' although I'm not one of those crazy fans who knows everything about everyone.

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 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.

By rights, I should be an out-of-work actress because I just don't want it as badly as some people want it.

Wonder Woman was my favorite superhero as a little girl. I still have a huge girl crush on Wonder Woman; I think she's amazing.

If I went for too long without writing, I would start to feel like something inside me was dying.

Somebody could take a picture of me from across the room, and I would feel like I wanted to rip their face off.

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

Around the time I graduated from high school, I decided better to underachieve and have friendship than to overachieve and be alone.

I was a massive Tolkien fan. 'The Hobbit' was ... my favorite book as a little girl, and the Silvan Elves were my favorite characters in the book.

I have two roommates, so it's a challenge to keep the house the way I like.

I don't watch TV. When people at my house try to talk about TV, I'm like, 'Ah, I have no idea what I'm talking about.'

I'm allergic to Hawaii. Everything there makes me react in some way.

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

What I wanted originally was six kids.