I lead a very physical life. I played a lot of sports and I spent a lot of time in the water surfing, swimming. I was a big swimmer.

McLeod's Daughters' was my first regular job out of drama school, and my first full-time role. That was great because I learned a lot, in terms of working in front of the camera.

New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work, like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone.

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young.

You always draw inspiration from your family or your parents if they've proven to be inspirational. My mother is someone who's always been inspirational to me.

When I'm not working, I weight train three times a week and swim and surf as much as I can - in the summer, you usually find me in the water.

Graphic novel genre become really quite popular. It's really a big screen film genre that they have successfully moved into the small screen.

There's always a project around, but you have to pick and choose.

The rig work can be rewarding to pull off, a really good rig in a set of wires where you're throwing yourself up walls and doing moves mid-air. That's just fun.

I'm such a fan of Deadwood. I love the characters in that. They're such wonderful characters. I'm a fan of The Wire. Those are all heavily character-based shows.

In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.

Not exactly smashing stereotypes of liberals as mincing pantywaists, the left's entire contribution to the war effort thus far has been to whine.

Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?

For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone].

To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.

Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.

I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.

Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.

I think it's really terrifying that a country based on the foundations and ideals of God, is now systematically removing God from everything. Everything!

If you dress up, it helps your personality to emerge - if you choose well.