Sam Neill Quotes

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• As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
• I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on…
• I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western,…
• I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.
• I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.
• When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.
• If you want to learn about America, watch The Wire. Its a profound piece of entertainment.
• Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.
• I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm…
• No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
• Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.
• Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.
• I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.
• I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.
• I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
• I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
• People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
• Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
• I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea…
• When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose…

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