Quotes About New Zealand

There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected.

Living in New Zealand, it's like a different world - it is a different world. It's very, very cool.

By and large, women in New Zealand are fortunate compared with some other countries, including many in our own region. But there is still progress to be made.

It's a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood.

In my early 20s, a friend and I worked for a few months on a sheep farm in New Zealand. Working with ewes, I learned a lot about the power of wool - how it keeps you cool when you're hot, warm when you're cold, dry when you're wet.

I am a New Zealander, but I don't want to swallow New Zealand identity in one gulp.

It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's.

The best sheep breeders are in Australia and New Zealand.

My second novel, 'The Luminaries,' is set in the New Zealand gold rushes of the 1860s, though it's not really a historical novel in the conventional sense. So far, I've been describing it as 'an astrological murder mystery.'

As soon as I got off the plane in L.A., I heard they'd cast the 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy and that it was all being shot in New Zealand! That was pretty ironic.

As a kid in New Zealand, you play cricket in summer and rugby in winter. I played cricket and hockey. Not rugby. I wasn't brawny enough for it. Or silly enough, perhaps.

I remember thinking when I was younger - we used to take holidays to Spain and France, and I just thought I was never going to get further than Spain or France. I really didn't when I was younger. And then I started auditioning for 'Narnia,' and the first thing when I got the part was go straight to New Zealand, halfway around the world.

I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

Since I was growing up in New Zealand where there's a hole in the ozone layer above us, we get so much sun damage to our skin, and the thing we can do to look after ourselves is use sunscreen during the day, but making sure your skin is well hydrated while you sleep.

New Zealand has better food - sorry, America.

Coming from New Zealand, all the music I listen to is not made by New Zealanders. People never come to New Zealand to play a show because it's in the middle of nowhere.

I have caught some big eels in New Zealand, where the climate is very similar to Scotland. But they grow to around five feet long.

I'm not sure it's affection for Australian or New Zealand films or not. I think it's just that there's something about 'Wilderpeople' that has really struck a chord.

We always had a lot of pak choi because my dad grew it in his vast vegetable garden in New Zealand - he grows everything, everywhere!

It's very special to be the first winner in New Zealand. Phil Taylor has always said to me about trying to be the first player to win when we go to a new country and I'm over the moon to do that in Auckland.

I've been round Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and China in the last few months and the message that I've been taking is that New Zealand is building an up market dynamic into a connected economy. And that we are not the old-fashioned, ship mutton kind of product the people associate their export in work.

New Zealand was one of the most beautiful countries to drive through for the scenery and the vast scale of the place.

I've had a quiet fascination with New Zealand for most of my life.

I'd come back after having served as ambassador to New Zealand and found that I had real concerns about the direction in which this country was headed.