For me it's all about creating a goal and fulfilling it.

I find that actors who are wanting to pursue tv or films don't seem to have much interest in classical theatre.

Just believe in yourself and to find spirituality that’s going to carry you. Because all the rest is just fluff.

We are always just trying to be strong and yet in touch with our bodies and the only way you can really do that is to believe in yourself because that’s all that you have.

Painting is a hobby for me.

And I think because there is an essence of me that cares about other people and what other people think then that then makes me seem very sweet and polite.

I wouldn't say that I'm overly religious, but I have a pretty good relationship with my spiritual being.

All the pictures in magazines and all of that is fun but in the end it's all about your soul and who you are and have you connected with the people.

It's very hard to become an actor in film and television, you have to have such perseverance and you have to really believe that if you have any sort of talent at all, you will find work one day.

I've grown so much as a person through playing Gabrielle, much less living in New Zealand and being with all of these people that I can't imagine my life being any different.

I think you have to have different tools for each job - you know producer is very different from a director and very different from an actor.

Everything is possible for one who believes

The reality of it is you have to be over the top if you want to be noticed.

They should call fishing what it really is... tricking and killing!

Being in love is such a nice feeling,and to be able to see that feeling on-screen is just nice, especially when it's a great story.

Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure.

Government does the least good and the most harm through subsidies.

The little suckings and smackings of the perversions are the sounds of joyous infancy.

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.

There's truths there that spiral out of what appears to be just a word game. That's what I find mystifying about the meanings of things: they kind of unscrew themselves from the practical words.