The Grass is Greener - Sam Neill

Some characters just jump off the page and some characters are very, very elusive. The elusive ones are usually the people I get offered.

– Actor Sam Neill on the film roles he usually wins

The things that get to me are either the extreme insecurity of New Zealand or the extreme smugness, I don't know which irritates me more.

– Sam Neill on the Kiwi traits that bug him

I think Otago's where I feel most at home...

– Sam Neill on his favourite part of New Zealand

I'm a woefully undertrained actor...but I think I can act and this is just something you have or you don't.

– Sam Neill on discovering his acting talent

When I find myself in some god awful part of the world like Warsaw or somewhere like that and I'm a bit homesick and a bit miserable and thoughts percolate through of home and usually it's some sort of image like bush or beaches and shimmering Hauraki Gulf...blue water...

– Sam Neill on thinking about home from far away

It was incredible, these women who were high powered and highly educated just went really ga-ga over Sam.

– Producer Timothy West on certain audience reactions to Neill's smoldering performance in 1979 feature My Brilliant Career

...I was sent here to do some publicity for that film, and I landed in Melbourne. We had a press conference which was a disaster; only one reporter turned up. And he was from the sports pages. And he wasn't interested in the film so we just got drunk.

– Sam Neill on arriving in Australia in 1979 to publicise film Sleeping Dogs

Probably the happiest experience I've ever had on a film was, we did a film called Death in Brunswick ... I think our friendship sort of bled into that partnership on the screen.

– Sam Neill on making Death in Brunswick with John Clarke, on 2017 documentary Thanks for Your Time