Anika Moa Unleashed - Series One

Would you guys be willing to go in a time machine with me back to the paleo caveman days and see how you like them apples? 

– Anika Moa asks Bachelor Art Green and Matilda Rice a very important question, in episode six

...I was awful at school. I was just an absolute rebel . . . and I organised marches against you know, establishment and what I believed in, and I was stroppy and I was considered a feminist . . .  [then] I saw the light!

– Politician Paula Bennett is asked about becoming a National Party politician, early in episode one

The tricky thing is, now I can't pick up a phone and call her when I want, because she's always in meetings, and the likelihood of her picking up is pretty rare.

– Television presenter Clarke Gayford on being in a relationship with the Prime Minister, in episode five

...every scene I think 'my god, why did I do it that way? I could have been so much better' . . .  I was pretty crappy when I started.

– Sam Neill admits to being self-critical about his acting, in episode four

I think it's hilarious. I mean, I'm not sure whether it was intended to be a comedy . . .  We're not laughing at...are we laughing at him? Or with him?

– Anika Moa interviews Casketeers star Francis Tipene, in episode three

Martin Henderson. I'm going to ask you some easy questions first just to get you moist. You know, about how you like feijoas, and are you kind to animals, and all that crap.

– Anika Moa kicks off her interview with Martin Henderson, in episode two

Part of his rehab was learning lines cause they knew that he was an actor. So his line retention was insane and it was awesome for us because he as a character had so many big lines...like big monologues and speeches in our film, and he just nailed it.

– Madeleine Sami talks about working with a recovering James Rolleston in movie The Breaker Upperers, in episode eight

Probably...paid parental leave as of right, for every parent, because without that it's difficult for women to combine career and family. And hasn't our country moved on to the point where the PM can say 'I'm having a baby and I'll take a little maternity leave' and that's the way it is.

– Former Prime Minister Helen Clark on her favourite legacy of her time in power, in episode seven

I can beat him in a fight. As far as basketball's concerned, I'm like 'meh'.

– Dame Valerie Adams on her famous basketballer brother Steven, in episode thirteen

I aspire to be a lone female detective in a small town in the British Isles.

– Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on loving the Broadchurch parody of her famous Vogue cover photo, in episode ten

Well I'm glad that you have a sort of memory of it because frankly Parliament used to be filled with characters. Now, sad to say, they've been numbed and dumbed down to actually being scared to say anything that's normal, whilst out there in the real world they're still talking 'normal', so to speak.

– Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters answers Anika Moa's question about Parliament becoming more 'PC', in episode ten

That's what a lot of my white friends say when I start moaning about the land. They're like 'oh, get over it.'

– Anika Moa deadpans to famous artist and Maori activist Tame Iti, in episode twelve

What turned you guys lesbian, Joni Mitchell or Rob Muldoon?

– Anika Moa asks the tough questions of Topp Twins Jools and Lynda, early in episode fourteen

Preggy. No, that's a big no no...well not in the first three months, but after then, .no. Big no no.

– Anika Moa discovers an unopened bottle of Moet in a kitchen near Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's office, in episode nine

Will you be ready to rise up when the time comes to push the coloniser out of Aotearoa, and will you be willing to spill your blood and die like a dog if need be?

– Anika Moa's "softball" opening question to chefs Kasey and Karena Bird, in episode eleven