Sam Neill Quotes

Only be an actor if you can't be happy doing anything else. I don't think you should be an actor if you want to be actor. I think you should be an actor if you have to be an actor.

I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else.

The advice that I was always given when asking for advice about acting was that if I could imagine myself doing anything else, anything else at all, then go do that.

I think I needed rather than wanted to be an actor. There is not another way to put it.

I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.

I didn't set out wanting to be an actress. That's not what I did. I didn't go to class striving to become an actress. I just basically - honestly, I didn't have anything else going.

I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.

Even on the worst days I am without a doubt still happier doing this than I am doing anything else. On acting.

Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.

I suppose that if I could have quit, I would have, because in those days I never wanted to be an actress, the acting was something to do while I waited for a chance to study writing and directing. But I guess I was just meant to be an actress. Because, here I am.

I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.

Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that God gave me to use. I'm happy with that.

I've never felt that acting was my vocation - never had that tortured thing. I love acting, but it doesn't feed my soul.

I never really decided to be an actress, but I got an agent, was called back on every show I auditioned for, and finally decided I was meant to be an actress.

I drifted into acting, and I've drifted into my career, and I've never been guided by anything particularly concrete.

My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.

I kind of fell into acting. I was very lucky.

Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.

I think people tend to fall into their careers sometimes, and maybe that's a lucky path to follow because you actually end up doing your purpose.

I don't have any other skills. Some artists say that to mean that their embodied passion for art gave them no choice. I say it, very specifically, to say that I really didn't have any other options.

I'm glad acting sunk its teeth into me, because now I can't imagine doing anything else.

I always knew I wanted to be an actor, certainly from the age of eight or nine. I think when you know what you want to do, you're very lucky because you've got a focus.

I was very small, about 3 or 4 I think, and just wanted to be the people on telly telling these wonderful stories. Obviously the idea grew and matured with me but I can't ever remember wanting to do anything else. I've just sort of taken it for granted all my life that that was what I would do.

It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.

I did not expect to be allowed to be an actor, to be allowed to eventually direct things.