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.

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.

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.

It is often out encounter with culture that first reveals to us our own culture.

A sure way to start your own business is to stay out of everyone else’s.

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the business man.

My brother's a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do.

Thinking is difficult and sometimes unpleasant.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.

...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

As an American, I'd like to apologize - for everything.

Feminism is one way of attacking society as it now exists.