Quotes from Sam Neill

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

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

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'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.

Wines are like women in that it's often the imperfections that fascinate.

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

I have taken a bit, when I find the time, to the odd television binge. Because television has improved so much, it's worth binging.

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.

I like Taika Waititi a lot. I thought 'Boy' was a really wonderful film, had great resonance. Very sad but also very funny. I thought 'What We Do in the Shadows,' the vampire film, was fantastic.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.

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.