Miranda Otto

Miranda: It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.

Miranda: It could be a stupid thing to say, but people should realize that it is easy to get concerned about yourself and to lose contact.

Miranda: If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.

Miranda: You are being hit with tabloid-journalism bi-lines of what you are doing because you have suddenly become a star.

Miranda: Young actors are serious about their work and don't take any time out from it. I'm very serious about my work; there are probably only two films I've done where I had a really good time.

Miranda: Everyone says you should get a photo taken of yourself while you're pregnant. I've got a film (War of the Worlds). It'll be nice for my daughter, too, to look at one day. She was in it.

Miranda: (When asked about her worst memory of being involved in the Lord of the Rings trilogy) When we were doing reshoots, we spent a few days doing the scene where I'm fighting the Witch-King. It was hard coming back after a couple of years away and not being as fit as I had been then.

Miranda: I'm so fair that I didn't go in the sun as a child. When all my friends were on the beach, I was going to ballet. The teachers there didn't like you going in the sun, so I never did.