Quotes by Sam Neill

• When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.
• As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
• I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.
• 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!
• 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.
• 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.
• I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.