Sam Neill Quotes

"Of all the characters I've played, I think I have more in common with that guy than with
Reilly: Ace of Spies referring to Carl Fitzgerald in
Death in Brunswick. Who Weekly (NZ) 8/23/93.

Referring to the Simpsons: "I'm playing a cat burglar. I've made it. This is the high point of my career. I'm really chuffed." EW, 7/23/93.

"Perhaps we should look at somewhere else where they recently used the time-old bribe of tax cuts, and see how it worked. In 2000,
George W. Bush, under the reasonable sounding 'compassionate conservatism', offered huge tax cuts. And he delivered. Take a look at America now. The rich are certainly richer, but the economy is in the tank, a healthy surplus has been converted into a massive deficit, and the U.S. is a place that cannot even afford the basics. Like maintaining levees in low-lying Louisiana. Might I suggest that tax cuts led indirectly to the flooding of New Orleans?".

"If all I did was acting, I'd go out of my mind."

"The pathetic thing about actors is they don't feel valid unless they're acting."