Sam Neill (Nigel John Dermot Neill) Quotes
When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.
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It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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I have never believed in the impossible.
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I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.
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I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
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I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
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When I first came out, country wouldn't touch me because I was way too rock, and rock wouldn't touch me because I was definitely country.
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I had the option of building a career in the U.S. Many of my friends who went at the time did not come back, but for me, building the family business and being with family was worth it. I became a general manager within four months, as I used my education to improve productivity and output.
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Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
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No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.
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If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.
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Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.
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I have a dear friend here in Toronto, Sarah Millman, who has helped me a lot as a stylist.
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I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.
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I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.
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It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.
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Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.
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Apart from the intrinsic interest of the complex system of beliefs the Puritans carried with them, their lives give a clue to what it meant at the beginning to be American. And the level of scholarship dealing with them has reached a point where it can address the human condition itself.
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I think it comes from far away inside me, to be strong to survive everything that comes my way. I think, going back to the beginning, feeling like an alien in an English school when I was eight, that set up my pride very early on. I think I'm very defensive, but I'm trying not to be like that anymore.
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I just want to be a good storyteller.
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When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.
