"I bring sunshine into people's hearts. Just with my talking...and my mind-work."

"I went up to have a costume fitting, and Billy Boyd was in the wardrobe department with Elijah Wood. That was the first time I met those guys; I turned the corner, and we looked at each other, jumped about, and hugged each other! It was a very interesting meeting, because you realize that you’re going to have to work with there people on the probably closest basis for a year and a half through the whole trilogy…and the first thing that we did was hug each other, so it was amazing."

"Growing up, I liked Jerry of Tom and Jerry. He was the little guy who was more clever than the big guy even though he wasn't as strong. I identified with that going through school. I also like Mighty Mouse. I like the little guys who come through in the end."

Its wild to think about the person I was before and you know friends that I have back in Manchester have said 'God you've really changed, you've really changed.' And I COMPLETELY embrace that, and say 'Yeah of course I have, I've been to the other side of the world for two years, and I've had more experiences in that two years than I've had my whole life"

"Everyone had a nickname [on the LOTR set] and I didn't and I always used to joke with the boys saying "I want one, I want one!!" Orli has a idiosyncratic way of talking and from about half way into the movie he called me sblomie... pronounced... Sblom-e as in Domie but take away the do and add sblo..clear?"

"I did Pete Jackson, Orlando, Elijah, Viggo, Billy, Ian McKellen. But the best one I did is Karin Shah, Elijah's size double. I impersonated his voice and called the producers pretending to be him, and Pete loved it."

"Went home and tried to make a cake, but the oven broke so I ate raw cake mix, watched TV, felt sick, and went to Billy's."

"For Merry, losing Pippin is like losing his strength, the other side of his personality."

"I hold Treebeard (In The Lord of the Rings) quite close to my heart. He takes things very slowly -- he knows that he'll live forever, so he can spend as much time as he wants mulling things over. I'm turned on by that because I don't think that way."

"I won't miss having to stand for two hours at 4:30 a.m. and having freezing cold glue applied to my feet. I won't miss two-hour drives to work or long, long, long, days sitting in my trailer waiting... waiting... waiting. I won't miss glue in my ears. But I would do it all again tomorrow."

"I was thinking about this a few days ago. I was having a shave and I was thinking about the boys. I'm kind of a believer in reincarnation and that stuff, and I feel I cannot have made these friendships by chance. I feel we've met each other before and it was our destiny to come together, like it's the destiny of the characters to come together."

[On Collectormania 4] "I could not believe the amount of people that turned up. Most were ... um ... yeah ... girls. Most went bright red, that was great. I love girls. There was this one girl whose voice got higher and higher and higher [imitates her] as she was speaking to me. I tried to calm her down but I think I was making it worse."

"Racism, sexism, homophobia, ignorance. I am irritated by all these things a lot. Also, having no beer in the fridge and losing a girls number that you really liked."

"I'm not that keen on listening to any kind of racist or homophobic or sexist kind of jabs. I don't think they really have any place in our generation. I think my generation of people, hopefully, from the people I've met up to now, are quite switched on and quite forward thinking as a generation."

"I'd love to play a gangster but I think people might say I looked a bit too young and cheeky to play a character who'd just blown someones head off!"

"I think deep down I've always wanted to be an actor. It was the one thing in school that I was undoubtedly enthusiastic about and good at. I coasted along being good at German, Geography, English and football but there wasn't anything that I could really call my thing, my niche."

"My mum always says 'Even if you’re not doing something wrong, you look like the guy who is.'"