Sam Neill Quotes

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• Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.

  Sam Neill

  Regret, Never Quit, Frightening

  "Fictional character: Cliff Buxton". "The Dish", www.imdb.com. 2000.

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

  Sam Neill

  Writing, Intelligent, Men

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

  Sam Neill

  Wine, Imperfection

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• Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.

  Sam Neill

  Eye, Needs, Horizon

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

  Sam Neill

  Character, Shed

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• 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

  Sea, Acting, Actors

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

  Sam Neill

  Actors, Want, Busy

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

  Sam Neill

  Stars, People, Fool

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

  Sam Neill

  Encouragement, Jobs, People

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

  Sam Neill

  Thinking, Brain, Needs

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• Big budgets don't necessarily give you big films.

  Sam Neill

  Giving, Film, Bigs

  Source: collider.com

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

  Sam Neill

  Jobs, Next, Nervous

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• 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

  Rain, Eggs, Choices

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• [Hunt for the Wilderpeople] people seem to be just finding it hilarious in Sundance. I would think that judging on the feedback I get; it's a very warming film. It's not sentimental, but people are sort of heart warmed by a message that's pretty rare.

  Sam Neill

  Heart, Thinking, People

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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

  Sam Neill

  Careers, Acting, Film

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• The core of the film [Hunt for the Wilderpeople] is that relationship. Whether they're getting on or whether they're not. If that relationship works, then everything else works as well. And you kind of almost, sort of, gives into a realm of something like New Zealand magic realism... There is no world in which social work is actually pursues some kid into the woods in this manner.

  Sam Neill

  Kids, Magic Realism, Giving

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• 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

  Father, Years, Relief

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• 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

  Thinking, Roles, Film

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• I like actors. I like their insecurities, their humor and their intelligence.

  Sam Neill

  Insecurity, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Bottles, Boat, Champagne

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• Nobody knows who Barry Crump is, anywhere, but in New Zealand he's huge. I am of that age, where I sort of grew up with Barry Crump books. Look, if you read the book, you realize it is actually not a funny book at all.

  Sam Neill

  Book, Age, Looks

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• You don't necessarily have to go a long way in New Zealand to be in some pretty dense and scary bush.

  Sam Neill

  Long, Scary, Way

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I never met Barry Crump, but I was in an audience once for a play once. There was a drunken man at the back of the auditorium that was shouting during a performance of a one man play, and it turned out later on that was Barry Crump and he was in a state of inebriation.

  Sam Neill

  Men, Play, States

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• This was only Taika Watiti fourth film [Hunt for the Wilderpeople], but I think he brings a very original way of looking at stuff and I think if you look at Boy, for instance, which is a beautiful film, that was his second feature, and it's heartbreakingly sad, but it's also simultaneously very funny. There are not many people who can do that.

  Sam Neill

  Beautiful, Boys, Thinking

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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

  Sam Neill

  Hate, Dumbing Down, Has Beens

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