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Sam Neill

Sam Neill

Irish Actor

Born: Sep 14, 1947

Actor Because Me People Think You

Related authors: Bob Geldof Cillian Murphy Colin Farrell Kenneth Branagh Liam Neeson Malachy McCourt Pierce Brosnan

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! Sam Neill

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I feel very privileged working with other actors. Actors tend to be the best company I know. Sam Neill

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I think so much of your energy when you're growing up is about becoming independent of your parents. And the older you get, the more you realise you're actually so much part and parcel of the same kind of material. Sam Neill

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Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work. Sam Neill

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Whilst filming 'Jurassic Park,' I watched a hurricane approaching the beach in Hawaii. My co-worker Laura Dern and I thought we might die, but we managed to laugh about it later. Sam Neill

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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. Sam Neill

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. Sam Neill

If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment. Sam Neill

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I was christened 'Nigel.' It set me back for years. Sam Neill

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I always want to be as good in the part as I possibly can. But I make no pretensions of being the greatest actor in the world. Sam Neill

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I certainly don't want to die playing a round of golf. And I don't want to die like Elvis. That's all they remember about him - the most beautiful man on the planet. Sam Neill

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I don't have a chateau in France. There's no private airplane or yacht. Sam Neill

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Do you know, I'm not as much of a moviegoer as I should be, and I do end up - because I'm travelling so much - I end up seeing movies on aeroplanes, which is the worst possible way to see a movie! Sam Neill

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I don't think I ever felt an outsider when I had a stutter. Sam Neill

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I was - I was very - I wasn't outgoing at all as a child. Sam Neill

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We always have to remind ourselves of how fragile life on this planet is and what responsibilities we have. Sam Neill

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I met the most extraordinary people all over the Pacific, but especially the people in Vanuatu who, in a material sense, are the poorest people I've ever come across. They own nothing, but in a well-being sense, they are easily the wealthiest people that I've come across. Sam Neill

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It was just as well I found acting because I had no aptitude for anything else. Sam Neill

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