Acting Is A Sort Of Pressure Cooker

I Remember Once, I Read In A Horoscope, Because I'm An Aries, I Read This Terrible Thing, Which Really Affected Me, Which Said, "you Will Never Be Original. You Will Always Be An Interpreter." (laughs) I Thought, "oh My God." You Know, I Had To Live With That On My Back For [all My Life].

I Love Acting And Certainly Won't Give It Up, But It's Part Of A Bigger Canvas For Me Now.

My Agent Told Me They Were Casting For The Voice Of Gollum. I Hadnt Read The Lord Of The Rings, But I Read The Script And Realized What An Amazing Role It Was. I Developed A Voice For The Audition Tape, Then Met Peter Jackson And Fran Walsh At The Auditions And Fell In Love With Them Both.

I Expect At Some Point I'll Probably Want To Go Back On Stage And Do Some Theater, Because I've Not Done Theater In 10 Years.

I Can Get On With All Different Sorts Of People, And I Never Feel Homesick, Particularly, Or I've Never Felt Kind Of Patriotic Towards Any One Country.