Here we get a deeper insight on Liv as a person as she talks about life, love, acting and other random subjects.
 

"There were times when I would get mad at him [Viggo Mortensen] beacuse he would push me harder. There was a weekend when I got really sick and had a horrible flu, and that was my one and only day to sleep and recover and not work. We were supposed to go horseback riding together and I cancelled it because I wasn't feeling well, and Viggo gave me a really hard time about it. So I went, and it was one of the greatest days of my life. It was actually the one time, while I was riding, that I really broke through to the other side with the canter and becoming more comfortable on the horse. I had a beautiful day and am incredibly grateful to Viggo for pushing me further. He taught me so much about that, about really being willing to submit and submerge yourself into making the film and the character work."

"Clothes have become too important and films are saturated with fashion. So you find yourself wearing designer clothes that aren't relevant to your character. I'm always so intrigued by Christopher Guest and his movies, like Best in Show and A Mighty Wind . He hires the actors and they all come up with the story and the concept, improvise. And they are all responsible for their own hair and make-up. They buy their own clothes, are in control of creating their characters. I would love to do that."

"I've been told that if I'd lose weight I'd have more work, but I refuse to submit myself to those standards. To the rest of the world, I'm slim, and I like the way I am."

"When I did Stealing Beauty, I was just a kid. I'd done a couple of movies, but I'd never been to an acting class in my life. But what I took away from it more than anything was the sense that, even though I was the central character, it was my job to get completely lost in the film. I had a real awareness of Bernardo Bertolucci as a filmmaker, not just a director, painting a canvas in which I was just one element."

"Subtlety is my favourite thing in cinema. It lets you dream. When everything is on the nail and on show, it leaves no questions in your mind. I find that so boring."

"It wasn't until I came back home after such a long time away that I realized how much hype there was about this. I get to play someone 3,000 years old. I'm 23, so that's quite an acting challenge." [Liv on portraying Arwen in The Lord of the Rings]

"It's cool to be compared to her [Elizabeth Taylor], but honestly who gives a damn?"

"I don't live a very posh life. There are no drivers waiting or people doing everything for me. I pretty much live like a normal person. . . . It's not good to have a life without responsibilities, you know?"

"Life excites me. I'm not talking about appearing in movies or doing interviews, but just little, normal, everyday things. Getting out of bed. Getting dressed. Making food. I find it all exciting, you know?"

"I have these slumber parties with my father [Steven Tyler] and when we can't sleep we stay up all night trading beauty tips. He knows all about the good creams and masks."

"Those smells that remind me of home. I can smell my dad [Steven Tyler] from a mile away. I can smell it whenever he's worn my clothes. He has this ambery smell that just melts into him."

"I saw somebody with a pierced clitoris the other day and I almost threw up. It looked so painful! "

"It's terrifying. It's so scary, because you get used to being around the crew and being friendly with everyone and then suddenly, at a certain point, everything switches and you're the one standing behind the lights and nobody's going to help you. And that can be really difficult sometimes."

"I just think it's really funny and entertaining. I mean, I don't necessarily take them really seriously - I don't even think a lot of really good films get seen. But I don't think that's what it's about. I mean, how amazing was Ellen Burstyn in Requiem For A Dream ? Especially as she was acting with herself most of the time. I don't understand how a performance like that can't win. I was so affected by that movie that I had to turn it off. I felt as if I was on drugs and my heart was about to leap out of my body."

"Oh, my God, this amazing cool breeze is coming through my window and the sun is shining. I'm happy."

"It's an amazing thing, really. It's a legitimate language [Elvish]. There are only a certain amount of people in the world who can speak it, like Oxford professors and what not. It's such a beautiful language too, it's really brilliant."

"The age I'm at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot. "

"When I started acting, the press would describe me as 'ex-supermodel Liv Tyler'. But I was never a supermodel! Let me make this very clear. I did Seventeen magazine. I didn't do anything major, ever. I was just a kid in school, and sometimes I would do a photo-shoot on the weekends. "

"Armageddon was not an acting experience. That's why I was depressed. It was about the effects and not about the performances. I had the really rough part of being the emotional person who's like, you know, upset all the time. "

"I am scared of becoming a mother. "

"I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too. "

"I don't want to spend so much time obsessing about myself. I love to cook and I love to eat. And yet, if I am not careful, I could be considered chubby in the film business. That's why it is great for me not to live in Hollywood. I love to go to the country where I can wear my pajamas all day long if I want. "

"Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment. "

"There's pressure all the time. It's stressful going to a premiere and having to look perfect, and everybody scrutinizes what you're wearing. It's scary. There's so much emphasis put on the physical. "

"I think,it was a smart idea to shoot it [the Lord of the Rings-trilogy] all at once, because the characters will be much more complete and convincing. We were living as those characters for a year and a half."

"I have my mother's eyes. My father's nose. His lips. Her cheekbones. My father's legs. My mother's bum."

"I was an ugly little child - a little awkward kid who was chubby and much taller than everybody and i was really suprised when I started to get taller and slimmer."

"It's very funny, and we really laughed a lot while we were making it [the Lord of the Rings] and I could always tell how happy the director [Peter Jackson] was by how hard he laughed behind the monitor."

"I loved the idea that you never see her [Jewel] from her point of view and you only see her from these three men's different point of view and it's all about projection. They are projecting onto her what they want her to be and she's filling that place for them and in turn filling something that they are missing in their lives. That's making them feel somehow."

"I love my dad, although I'm definitely critical of him sometimes, like when his pants are too tight. ... But I love him so much and I try to be really supportive of him."