Sam Neill Quotes

I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.

I don't think I've ever tried to make something happen that I've absolutely had to force. You know how they say: if you can't avoid it, enjoy it. For me, it's the other way around: if I can't enjoy it, I avoid it.

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

I only do what I like to do.

I always try and decide what I'm interested in, and I just do that.

Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.

I didn't start running because somebody asked me to become a runner. Just like I didn't become a novelist because someone asked me to. One day, out of the blue, I wanted to write a novel. And one day, out of the blue, I started to run-simply because I wanted to. I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.

I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me.

My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.

It's a simple quality of human nature that people prefer to choose to do things rather than be ordered to do them. In fact, as soon as you tell me I have to do something - give a speech, attend a banquet, go to Cannes - I immediately start looking for ways to avoid doing it.

I just do what I want to do. I look at what's interesting to me.

I don't even realize sometimes I am spending hours and hours on the field, because it is something I decide to do, not something someone else demands of me.

When you are training, you are doing what you want to do.

I enjoy racing because I want to do it. No one's forcing me.

Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best.

But what I do I do because I like to do.

I never could stand being forced to do something I didn't want to do at a time I didn't want to do it. Whenever I was able to do something I liked to do, though, when I wanted to do it, and the way I wanted to do it, I'd give it everything I had.

I don't think you play for other people's expectations, you know. You don't go and become a lawyer because your mother or father want you to, you don't become a coach because somebody wants you to.

For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.

Only disciplined people become free, but their discipline is not obedience to others: their discipline is obedience to their own inner voice. And they are ready to risk anything for it.

I'll stop doing everything that I do when I don't want to do it anymore.

I just try and decide what I'm interested in and what excites me. I don't worry about how it's going to be perceived.

I will act because I enjoy it.

Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.

Nobody is pushing me. Nobody is telling me what I do.