Sam Neill Quotes

“We always have to remind ourselves of how fragile life on this planet is and what responsibilities we have.”

“I met the most extraordinary people all over the Pacific, but especially the people in Vanuatu who, in a material sense, are the poorest people I've ever come across. They own nothing, but in a well-being sense, they are easily the wealthiest people that I've come across.”

“I'm serviceable. I'm durable. I get the job done.”

“It was just as well I found acting because I had no aptitude for anything else.”

“When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.”

“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 greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.”

“I always want to be as good in the part as I possibly can. But I make no pretensions of being the greatest actor in the world.”

“I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre.”

“It doesn't matter how popular an actor you are: nobody will remember you forever.”

“People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.”

“I feel very privileged working with other actors. Actors tend to be the best company I know.”

“It makes the day considerably more enjoyable when you're working with people you think are good, and it makes your job easier, too.”

“If it looks like fun, and it looks like quality, then I'll do it. I don't feel compelled to work, or not to work.”

“Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.”

“I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.”

“I'm conscious that there's only a limited amount that I'll get done before I get shuffled into retirement, but I certainly have no desire to retire.”

“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, but no one has ever asked me to do that.”

“I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.”

“I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.”

“I think I'm pretty benign, really, mostly.”

“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.”

“No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily; you can write that down.”

“I was christened "Nigel." It set me back for years.”

“I was very... I wasn't outgoing at all as a child.”

“I don't think I ever felt an outsider when I had a stutter.”