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Top 30 Sam Neill Quotes (2025 Update)

Sam Neill Quote: “Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.”

1. “Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.”

Sam Neill Quote: “Where we’re going, we won’t need eyes to see.”

2. “Where we’re going, we won’t need eyes to see.”

Sam Neill Quote: “Nobody knows who Barry Crump is, anywhere, but in New Zealand he’s huge. I am of that age, where I sort of grew up with Barry Crump books. Look, if you read the book, you realize it is actually not a funny book at all.”

3. “Nobody knows who Barry Crump is, anywhere, but in New Zealand he’s huge. I am of that age, where I sort of grew up with Barry Crump books. Look, if you read the book, you realize it is actually not a funny book at all.”

Sam Neill Quote: “People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.”

4. “People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.”

Sam Neill Quote: “I never met Barry Crump, but I was in an audience once for a play once. There was a drunken man at the back of the auditorium that was shouting during a performance of a one man play, and it turned out later on that was Barry Crump and he was in a state of inebriation.”

5. “I never met Barry Crump, but I was in an audience once for a play once. There was a drunken man at the back of the auditorium that was shouting during a performance of a one man play, and it turned out later on that was Barry Crump and he was in a state of inebriation.”

Sam Neill Quote: “Wines are like women in that it’s often the imperfections that fascinate.”

6. “Wines are like women in that it’s often the imperfections that fascinate.”

Sam Neill Quote: “I’m not big on Champagne, but I’d take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.”

7. “I’m not big on Champagne, but I’d take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.”

Sam Neill Quote: “Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent – it doesn’t work.”

8. “Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent – it doesn’t work.”

Sam Neill Quote: “Magic realism – somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It resonates with me.”

9. “Magic realism – somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It resonates with me.”

Sam Neill Quote: “No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily – you can write that down.”

10. “No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily – you can write that down.”

Sam Neill Quote: “When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.”

11. “When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.”

Sam Neill Quote: “I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.”

12. “I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.”

Sam Neill Quote: “I can never really remember what I look like. I’m just sort of neutral. I don’t think I’m sort of, you know, hideous.”

13. “I can never really remember what I look like. I’m just sort of neutral. I don’t think I’m sort of, you know, hideous.”

Sam Neill Quote: “I understand acting and I understand actors. I don’t really understand the world of celebrity. That’s just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I’m at sea with.”

14. “I understand acting and I understand actors. I don’t really understand the world of celebrity. That’s just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I’m at sea with.”

Sam Neill Quote: “As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.”

15. “As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.”

Sam Neill Quote: “I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it’s raining, it’s terribly cold, I’m wet and I’m being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I’d probably take the latter. It’s warmer and generally more comfortable!”

16. “I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it’s raining, it’s terribly cold, I’m wet and I’m being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I’d probably take the latter. It’s warmer and generally more comfortable!”

Sam Neill Quote: “I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven’t gotten to do but I’d love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I’d love to do.”

17. “I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven’t gotten to do but I’d love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I’d love to do.”

Sam Neill Quote: “You don’t necessarily have to go a long way in New Zealand to be in some pretty dense and scary bush.”

18. “You don’t necessarily have to go a long way in New Zealand to be in some pretty dense and scary bush.”

Sam Neill Quote: “You never really know who you’re going to be acting with, but that doesn’t really matter. 99% of the actors I’ve worked with, and they number in the thousands, I’ve liked.”

19. “You never really know who you’re going to be acting with, but that doesn’t really matter. 99% of the actors I’ve worked with, and they number in the thousands, I’ve liked.”

Sam Neill Quote: “Big budgets don’t necessarily give you big films.”

20. “Big budgets don’t necessarily give you big films.”

Sam Neill Quote: “Actors are easy to like. They are generally sociable, thoughtful people.”

21. “Actors are easy to like. They are generally sociable, thoughtful people.”

Sam Neill Quote: “Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.”

22. “Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.”

Sam Neill Quote: “In the case of Wilderpeople, I walked on the first day with some apprehension actually; because it doesn’t come anywhere close to anything I’ve really played before, this part.”

23. “In the case of Wilderpeople, I walked on the first day with some apprehension actually; because it doesn’t come anywhere close to anything I’ve really played before, this part.”

Sam Neill Quote: “When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.”

24. “When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.”

Sam Neill Quote: “I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.”

25. “I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.”

Sam Neill Quote: “I’ve worked all my life to shed myself of any character.”

26. “I’ve worked all my life to shed myself of any character.”

Sam Neill Quote: “I like being around actors. Imagine not liking actors.”

27. “I like being around actors. Imagine not liking actors.”

Sam Neill Quote: “I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot – which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong’s landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.”

28. “I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot – which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong’s landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.”

Sam Neill Quote: “I like actors. I like their insecurities, their humor and their intelligence.”

29. “I like actors. I like their insecurities, their humor and their intelligence.”

Sam Neill Quote: “I get very antsy and nervous if I don’t know what the next job is.”

30. “I get very antsy and nervous if I don’t know what the next job is.”

Sam Neill Quote: “If you want to learn about America, watch The Wire. Its a profound piece of entertainment.”

31. “If you want to learn about America, watch The Wire. Its a profound piece of entertainment.”

Sam Neill Quote: “School House was pretty easy to remember, and spell, and just as well, because many of the boys there were the product of generations of inbreeding. Canterbury farming families, for some reason, like to marry among their own. The gene pool is very small. You would think that a cursory examination of how they bred their Corriedale sheep would’ve been helpful in this regard. Sadly, no.”

32. “School House was pretty easy to remember, and spell, and just as well, because many of the boys there were the product of generations of inbreeding. Canterbury farming families, for some reason, like to marry among their own. The gene pool is very small. You would think that a cursory examination of how they bred their Corriedale sheep would’ve been helpful in this regard. Sadly, no.”

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