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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Let animals live like animals

Never believe a man’s claim that he has to harm his partner in order to protect her

I think leadership is creating a state of mind in others.

When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more.

I actually think agendas are more often found in State of the Union speeches than in inaugural speeches.

Everything we do affects other people.

in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction.

My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.

Europe has united, China is growing speedily and Russia possesses immense power in terms of fuel resources. The US administration cannot do anything about it.

Real optimism has reason to complain but prefers to smile.