Sam Neill Quotes

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 being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!
Sam Neill

Enjoy, Between, Choice

As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
Sam Neill

'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.
Sam Neill

Addicted, Fond, Dexter

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

Busy, Enough, Actor

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.
Sam Neill

Remember, Neutral, Hideous

I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.
Sam Neill

Time, School, Play

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

Job, Next, Nervous

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. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.
Sam Neill

Love, Pretty, Between

I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
Sam Neill

Movies, Hate, Down

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

Authority, Brains

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 with.
Sam Neill

Understand, Acting, Sea

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.
Sam Neill

Big, Along, Boat

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.
Sam Neill

Life, Character, Worked

If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
Sam Neill

America, Learn, Profound

No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
Sam Neill

Down, Write, Moustache

People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
Sam Neill

Weird, Star, Movie

Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
Sam Neill

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.
Sam Neill

Great, Fear, Greatest

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

Career, Acting, Started

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Actor

Born: September 14, 1947

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