Sam Neill Quotes

In 2003, I had the pleasure of acting in three films.

In Korea, I do different kinds of genres. So, like that, I would like to do a lot of good acting films.

I have an affinity for good roles in good films. I like a variety of parts, and if some of the good stuff happens to be in fantasy and horror, I do them.

I don't really give much thought to the roles that I'd ideally love to play.

Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.

I am looking to play powerful characters and as far as biopics are concerned.

I used to do small roles in Western films.

I consider myself a novice film actor.

I love the role I'm playing in 'Conan.' I'm enjoying making the film tremendously. It's very physically demanding. You know, Conan is 28 years younger than me and a big dude, so I have to depend upon my wolf-like wiles to defeat this young bull.

You can tell when you watch a movie, usually, what the actors' experience was on the movie, because even the smallest of roles were interesting.

I am a big fan of horror movies but I had never thought that I had wanted to act in one because I don't think that actors get to do much in them. They're usually just reacting.

Ooh, I'd love to be in a movie with Meryl Streep or Martin Scorsese. There are so many different things I want to do, maybe like a possessed child or an evil something... I don't know!

I never took any theater lessons. So when I started to do movies, I was 14.

I was lucky enough to have a plethora of types of roles before and during the horror movie part of my career.

It has been a great experience to act in Hollywood movies with actors like Ben Kingsley.

I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in 'American Wedding'. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page.

I want to play a variety of different characters in different genres of film.

Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined I'd be acting in movies.

Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started.

I'm very much looking forward to my 30-40 years of acting, and, as I get older, I'm really looking forward to some of the roles that are out there to play.

Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in love with a military guy in 'Soldier's Girl.'

Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.

Well, acting has been a dream of mine since I can remember; being in the movies and acting, having those experiences.

It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just don't fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I've made recently and so I'm pretty positive about the future.

I feel so fortunate to have been able to work so much, particularly in the horror-thriller genre, but I would love to be able to do something perhaps a little more dramatic or even a romantic comedy.