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Sam Neill
Irish
Actor
Born:
Sep 14
,
1947
Actor
Because
Me
People
Think
You
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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
Enjoy
Cold
Latter
Dinosaur
Physical
Some
More
Scene
Take
Generally
Had
Between
Stuff
Drowned
Terribly
Comfortable
Laboratory
Wet
Eggs
Being
Where
Warmer
Choice
Raining
Playing
If you're making films in New Zealand, you can't avoid the landscape. It's certainly more handsome than I am.
Sam Neill
You
Films
More
New
Making
Am
Than
Handsome
New Zealand
Landscape
Certainly
Avoid
Zealand
I feel very privileged working with other actors. Actors tend to be the best company I know.
Sam Neill
Best
Other
Tend
Feel
Know
Very
Privileged
Working
Company
Actor
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
You
Parents
Energy
Older
Think
Independent
Kind
Parcel
About
More
Part
Part And Parcel
Becoming
Material
Up
Get
Same
Realise
Much
Your
Growing
Growing Up
Actually
Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
Sam Neill
Work
Try
New
Accent
Fit
New Zealand
Zealand
Playground
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
Approaching
Thought
Later
Laugh
Laura
Hurricane
About
Beach
Park
Hawaii
Die
Jurassic
Jurassic Park
Whilst
Might
Watched
Filming
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
Time
You
School
Old
Tell
Valve
About
Armstrong
Heard
Common
Where
Which
Room
Landing
Shot
Radio
Rehearsing
Play
Kennedy
University
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
Love
Me
Few
Think
Type
Pretty
Only
No-One
Between
Days
Genre
Gotten
Go
Western
Very
Role
Unfortunately
Far
Asked
Much
Film
Ever
When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.
Sam Neill
Me
Films
Out
Could
Never
Make
Occurred
Really
Acting
Started
Career
I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.
Sam Neill
You
Remember
Think
Hideous
Neutral
Never
Like
Know
Look
Sort
Just
Really
If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
Sam Neill
You
Entertainment
About
Wire
Piece
Learn
America
Want
Watch
Profound
It took me 30 years, but I finally bought myself the Patek Philippe watch I'd always wanted. It's ridiculous how much I love it.
Sam Neill
Love
Myself
Me
Took
Finally
Bought
Always
How
How Much
Years
Wanted
Much
Ridiculous
Watch
I was christened 'Nigel.' It set me back for years.
Sam Neill
Me
Back
Years
Set
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
Good
World
Possibly
Part
Make
Greatest
Always
Being
Want
Actor
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
Beautiful
Man
Remember
Most Beautiful
Elvis
About
Like
Most
Him
Die
Want
Golf
Planet
Certainly
Round
Playing
I don't have a chateau in France. There's no private airplane or yacht.
Sam Neill
France
Airplane
Yacht
Private
If you're making a horror film, it's very important that you have lots of quiet, suspensey, don't-know-what's-happening stuff before you get the big fright.
Sam Neill
You
Important
Big
Before
Horror
Horror Film
Stuff
Making
Lots
Very
Fright
Quiet
Get
Film
I'm not sure it's affection for Australian or New Zealand films or not. I think it's just that there's something about 'Wilderpeople' that has really struck a chord.
Sam Neill
Affection
Think
Films
About
Something
Struck
New
Sure
Australian
Just
New Zealand
Really
Chord
Zealand
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
You
Way
Worst
Possible
See
Seeing
Do You Know
Know
Because
Aeroplanes
End
Up
Movie
Which
Movies
Much
Should
Travelling
I don't think I ever felt an outsider when I had a stutter.
Sam Neill
Think
Had
Outsider
Stutter
Felt
Ever
I was - I was very - I wasn't outgoing at all as a child.
Sam Neill
Outgoing
Very
Child
We always have to remind ourselves of how fragile life on this planet is and what responsibilities we have.
Sam Neill
Life
Ourselves
Responsibilities
Remind
Always
How
Planet
Fragile
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
People
Met
Own
Sense
Nothing
Extraordinary
Extraordinary People
Easily
Over
Come
Most
Well-Being
Material
Pacific
Poorest
Across
Who
Ever
I'm conscious that there's only a limited amount that I'll get done before I get shuffled into retirement, but I certainly have no desire to retire.
Sam Neill
Before
No Desire
Only
Retire
Retirement
Limited
Get
Done
Certainly
Conscious
Amount
Desire
It was just as well I found acting because I had no aptitude for anything else.
Sam Neill
Else
Aptitude
Had
Well
Because
Just
Anything
Anything Else
Acting
Found
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