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."

Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.
SAM NEILL

'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.
SAM NEILL

I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'...
SAM NEILL

I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat co...
SAM NEILL

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

When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the gr...
SAM NEILL

I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. T...
SAM NEILL

If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertain...
SAM NEILL

I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not wi...
SAM NEILL

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

Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
SAM NEILL

People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
SAM NEILL

I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, i...
SAM NEILL

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

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.
SAM NEILL

I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard a...
SAM NEILL

No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
SAM NEILL

I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.
SAM NEILL

I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's ...
SAM NEILL

There's part of me that loves traveling. And there's part of me that just loves staying home. It's a...
SAM NEILL

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.
SAM NEILL

Something to be said for silence,
SAM NEILL

It's fairly hard to find gay drug dealers that aren't locked up or dead, or 23, so it's fairly obliq...
SAM NEILL

I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard a...
SAM NEILL

I love the fact that you can't tell pinot noir what to do; it has to express itself. And it's always...
SAM NEILL

When you hear actors say, 'Oh, I did all my own stunts,' it is usually crap! It's one thing jumping ...
SAM NEILL

I don't think I really have the insight or the inquiring to be an astronomer, and I don't think I ha...
SAM NEILL

If you just compare South Africans to the rest of the world, I think that white South Africans, and ...
NEILL BLOMKAMP

When any young director gets hired by a studio to do a $125 million film based on a preexisting piec...
NEILL BLOMKAMP

I am beginning to remember what it means to need things. Laughter. Companionship. Love. "
He le...
CHLOE NEILL

There has to be the popcorn genre element, or I don't engage the same way. I like action and veh...
NEILL BLOMKAMP

I think that people who make films and think they're changing the world are sorely mistaken. If ...
NEILL BLOMKAMP

Oh please," Scout said."Don't take that tone with me. You know you'd love to have a minion. Someone ...
CHLOE NEILL

Even where cooling is above normal the weather is pretty mild. The market is extremely weak this mor...
CARL NEILL

They have to pull gas. And if there's no usage for it, that just puts more pressure on wholesale pri...
CARL NEILL

Winter is a done deal. The big concern now is we're going to have too much gas.
CARL NEILL

The market has factored in a lot of damage beforehand, in anticipation that this storm will equal or...
CARL NEILL

We're way oversold. They've thrown about as much bearish news at this market as you possibly can.
CARL NEILL

All those factors combined have really smacked this market back down. You're going to have a lot of ...
CARL NEILL

It's still under most people's radar screen right now. The public has absolutely no idea how high pr...
CARL NEILL

The average person has no idea how expensive things are going to be this winter. It's not going to s...
CARL NEILL

What's really driving us here is continued concern about how much damage has been done by either Rit...
CARL NEILL

RSI reached the lowest level ever in the history of the February contract.
CARL NEILL

There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wea...
NEILL BLOMKAMP

Of those who say nothing, few are silent.
THOMAS NEILL

This was simply for the amusement of Pfc. England and the other soldiers. Pfc. England is actively i...
CHUCK NEILL

That one surprised me, Every defensive lineman wants to run pass routes. I think it went very well.
RYAN NEILL

Being here doesn't mean you're a good football player, but it shows that you at least have the athle...
RYAN NEILL

I had never thought much of Rutgers; I was going to go to Northwestern, Pittsburgh or Wake Forest. M...
RYAN NEILL

A lot of people thought I wouldn't be able to play again.
RYAN NEILL

I like where we're going with technology and global integration, but the fact that corporations ...
NEILL BLOMKAMP

It's a piece of legislation which is packed away in a little box and left on a shelf.
ALEXANDER NEILL

The Chinese censorship mechanism is not just looking for subversive elements. It is also looking at ...
ALEXANDER NEILL

Given that China will be using coal for the next 50 to 70 years it is important to develop alternati...
ALEXANDER NEILL

Obviously I don't want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically...
NEILL BLOMKAMP

There is something fundamentally fascinating about the mechanics, I guess, of the human body and whe...
NEILL BLOMKAMP

A lot of parts of L.A. are interchangeable with suburbs in Joburg. Very big, ostentatious houses wit...
NEILL BLOMKAMP

We have about 400 inspectors. Whenever there is a cold spell like this, every available inspector is...
NEILL COLEMAN

You’re so immature.” “Blue hair. That’s all I’m saying.” “Bite me, dead girl.” I sho...
CHLOE NEILL

Go ahead,” I told him. “Go see your admirers. Sign some autographs. It’s good PR for the House...
CHLOE NEILL

Aw, sad face. I came up with that totally off the cuff. No props for off the cuff?
CHLOE NEILL

If only we could have picked our family...
CHLOE NEILL

And so, on a night in late May, I found myself standing on the lawn of a Hyde Park mansion of vampir...
CHLOE NEILL

Friends in high places definitely helped- especially if you had enemies in even higher spots.
CHLOE NEILL

And that’s why we’re sending Boobs McGee.”
I slowly swiveled my head to glare at Catcher....
CHLOE NEILL

I wouldn’t say I was forward, but I made a move when I was interested.
CHLOE NEILL

You give me thirty-two inches of folded steel and I'll take on anyone you want." -- Merit
CHLOE NEILL

Give me something to go on, here. What kind of black magic are we talking? Elphaba,Wicked Witch of t...
CHLOE NEILL

I'll have you in my bed again, Sentinel. And at my side. That is a promise.
CHLOE NEILL

Avoidance helped settle the emotions. Considerably.
CHLOE NEILL

A slap wouldn’t have pulled me out of the trance any faster.
CHLOE NEILL

Sometimes hanging out in pajamas with a good book sounded like a phenomenal idea.
CHLOE NEILL

He's twenty-nine. And what did you think he was going to look like?"
She shrugged.
"You kn...
CHLOE NEILL

You do that Helen", Mallory dared. "And tell him we said to f*ck off while youre at it".
CHLOE NEILL

You can run. You can keep running to the ends of the earth. But I won’t be far behind you.”
CHLOE NEILL

Ethan: You can run. You can keep running to the ends of the earth. But I won't be far behind you. No...
CHLOE NEILL

Not bad for a ‘common soldier,’ hmm?” I quietly asked, then resheathed my katana and headed ba...
CHLOE NEILL

And our safe word?"
"Wonderwall."
Lindsey turned around and cast Luc a sardonic look. " Yo...
CHLOE NEILL

You’re quiet this evening,” he said.

I pasted on a pleasant smile. “It’s been a ...
CHLOE NEILL

He turned on his heel and began down the hall, then called back, “And we’ll need to chat about y...
CHLOE NEILL

You are caught, Sentinel.' His voice was rough.
CHLOE NEILL

Margot winked at her. “Every so often, we gather together. We take a little time—a little cathar...
CHLOE NEILL

What’s this?”
“An apology, of sorts.”
I made a moue, but slipped the lid from th...
CHLOE NEILL

A friend once told me the hurt that came with the end of a relationship was painful because it was t...
CHLOE NEILL

Some minutes or hours or days later, when I lay boneless and well satisfied, Ethan raised his gaze t...
CHLOE NEILL

Dear God,”
“It should be illegal for smug vampires to look that good,” Lindsey said, cluc...
CHLOE NEILL

He stopped me with his hand at my jaw, thumb against my chin. “Sometimes, people must adapt. Immor...
CHLOE NEILL

I’m not your father, you know.”
It took me a moment to find words. “Excuse me?”
�...
CHLOE NEILL

Now that, my friends, is what we vampires call a good exit.
CHLOE NEILL

Well, I suppose I could follow his advice. Are you hungry?”
“Surprisingly enough, not at th...
CHLOE NEILL

Eventually, the room was cleared, and we stood there together, chests heaving, a spray of shifters a...
CHLOE NEILL

Was I not tempting enough?” I asked him. “Not classy enough?”

I didn’t expect hi...
CHLOE NEILL

Lindsey patted my arm. “Don’t be embarrassed. It’s about time you two made the beast with two ...
CHLOE NEILL

She has a point, Liege.”
Ethan clucked his tongue. “Captain of my Guards and he carries the...
CHLOE NEILL

And then his voice echoed through my head. Merit.
He silently called my name, even as h...
CHLOE NEILL

Let’s just remember, Sullivan, that I want you for your smoked meats and your smoked meats only.�...
CHLOE NEILL

Pec-tacle?
You know, like spectacle but with more dude nipples.
CHLOE NEILL

Always remember," he whispered to me, "that you are an uncommon soldier, whatever they say. And you ...
CHLOE NEILL

Say what you had to about Ethan, but the boy filled a library very, very well.
Okay—arguably,...
CHLOE NEILL

It is an apology,” he said, “for not believing in you . . . or in us. Yesterday, I thought I’d...
CHLOE NEILL

Catcher snorted. “If we’re not playing naked Twister, we’re wasting our waking hours.”
...
CHLOE NEILL

The best revenge is a life well lived.
CHLOE NEILL

He paused, then tapped a finger against the box. “This is a wish,” he said quietly, “that even...
CHLOE NEILL

You undo me, Merit. Wholly and completely. You don't take me at my word. You challenge me at every o...
CHLOE NEILL

I wanted what most people wanted—love, companionship.
I wanted someone to touch. I wanted som...
CHLOE NEILL

I just want to make films that have enough of a budget to pull off high-level imagery but also have ...
NEILL BLOMKAMP

High-level actors can be all about their close-ups and the size of their trailers. I'd heard the...
NEILL BLOMKAMP

Satire also allows you to make fun of every different aspect. It allows you to make fun of both side...
NEILL BLOMKAMP

I'm a massive hater of 3D. I don't like it at all. For me, you go to a movie theatre and you...
NEILL BLOMKAMP

I still really love the world and the universe and the mythology of 'Halo.' If I was given c...
NEILL BLOMKAMP

What I do is spend too much time thinking. Most of the time I just walk around annoyed. Would I desc...
NEILL BLOMKAMP

The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them by the stimulating inf...
STEPHEN NEILL

I will have both of you," he said. "My Sentinel and my city. And the GP will learn exactly how stubb...
CHLOE NEILL

Everything that was happening that night was for the amusement of the guards.
CHUCK NEILL

This is what we should do when it's 54 degrees in Chicago in January.
CARL NEILL

It looks like crude is taking a bit of a breather.
CARL NEILL

Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 Theologically, we have been di...
STEPHEN NEILL

The will directs the tongue or the hand to act, and the evil word is spoken, or the evil deed done. ...
STEPHEN NEILL

Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274 This Christian claim [of universal va...
STEPHEN NEILL

Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877 The ordinary group of wors...
STEPHEN NEILL

It was on the last night of His life, when His enemies were all around Him, that He spoke to His dis...
STEPHEN NEILL

Is the leadership of the world-wide church in the hands of men and women who know how to lead others...
STEPHEN NEILL

We have to repent of our blindness, our lukewarmness, and our disobedience, and turn back to the cen...
STEPHEN NEILL

He played at the highest level and he taught me the way the game was supposed to be played. The game...
RYAN NEILL

I think it has to be that way every week, no matter who you play. Obviously you have to prepare for ...
RYAN NEILL

I still think this is the best team we've ever had.
RYAN NEILL

We hear a lot of it. But all I say is, I'm going to do my best and play my best. That's not up to me...
RYAN NEILL

They're very solid up front, one of the best we've played against this year as far as the offensive ...
RYAN NEILL

This was the last place I'd want to go. There were probably a dozen I-AA schools I would have rather...
RYAN NEILL

(Doctors) were saying we can't tell you if you are going to play again. A couple of doctors were say...
RYAN NEILL

I'm so happy for coach. It shows that the university believes in him to give him that extension. He ...
RYAN NEILL

My goal at the beginning of the year was just to win every game we could, but more importantly to le...
RYAN NEILL

Everybody said we wouldn't go, but I'm happy I came here.
RYAN NEILL

The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may ha...
STEPHEN NEILL

Johannesburg is weird, because half of it is like Los Angeles. It feels like just wealthy parts of L...
NEILL BLOMKAMP

The fact that we are in such good shape with storage is what the market is focused on now.
CARL NEILL

I would rather see a school produce a happy street cleaner than a neurotic scholar.
A.S. NEILL

To move forward, one need only take the first step,
CHASE NEILL

Kite cleared his throat. " Gaslight Goods in a nonparty to any disputes among members of the Dark El...
CHLOE NEILL

Gaslight Goods. Let us be your light in the midst of life's darkness, the sunlight in your foggy day...
CHLOE NEILL

In a lot of the really impoverished areas of Johannesburg you see these packets of cheesy puffs whic...
NEILL BLOMKAMP

If you look at the most meaningful science fiction, it didn't come from watching other films. We...
NEILL BLOMKAMP

If there isn't a deep core reason for a film existing, what is the point? For me to be known as ...
NEILL BLOMKAMP

Summerhill children are allowed to go through their gangster period, and consequentially more furnit...
A.S. NEILL

Small boys often produce their own plays; but usually the parts are not written out. They hardly nee...
A.S. NEILL

It's bold, no doubt about that, but I think it's a clever move by the team. The rules allow it and w...
FRASER NEILL

Training was good, he (Houston) was in good spirits but at the end of the training session, upon ref...
FRASER NEILL

You have to abide by the tournament rules. It said basically that they've now made a tournament rule...
FRASER NEILL

If you are going to be true to your squad how can you justify figures like that.
FRASER NEILL

We've heard that. We were told it was three kitchen sinks they were throwing at him.
FRASER NEILL

I raised the judiciary issue with Gary Flowers yesterday before the Rocky decision was handed down a...
FRASER NEILL

We only have six or seven home games. We don't see the other sports as competition. We are the only ...
FRASER NEILL

It's obviously disappointing to see this happen and we find it totally unacceptable behavior, as doe...
FRASER NEILL

He hasn't been home but they think they may know where he is but they're not sure and they haven't b...
FRASER NEILL

This Christian claim [of universal validity] is naturally offensive to the adherents of every other ...
STEPHEN NEILL

It's a fantastic achievement for a small club like us. With a small but talented squad we can mix it...
LUCAS NEILL

There are three games to go and those three games come in a short space of time, and the boys are no...
LUCAS NEILL

But I'd be surprised if it was that easy against the Solomons and the boss (coach Guus Hiddink) is n...
LUCAS NEILL

It would be nice to get an early mark, ... I'm in favour of going home early because it gives us ide...
LUCAS NEILL

I think the World Cup is the priority now, it doesn't matter about the money. I think whether it be ...
LUCAS NEILL

I'm glad that somethings been sorted and the most important thing, is as players, to have no other t...
LUCAS NEILL

There's an entirely new world opening up for you right now. A dangerous and occasionally sickening a...
CHLOE NEILL

My pledge is that I'm going to treat every person in the district with dignity and respect.
TOM NEILL

My heart only beats for you but you never listen it
SAM

You want to be happy? you should first learn how to let it go
SAM

What I am trying to tell you,” Trinka said softly, looking back at him, “is that there are good ...
D. ALEXANDER NEILL

He lifted the thrashing muskellunge, held it up for the world to see, and let the thrash go out of i...
MATTHEW NEILL NULL

Progress first requires a step to be taken.
CHASE S.M. NEILL

Moving forward first requires a step to be taken.
CHASE S.M. NEILL

Moving forward requires that one first take a step.
CHASE S.M. NEILL

To move forward, one must take the first step
CHASE S.M. NEILL

To move forward, you must first take a step
CHASE S.M. NEILL

Lark’s Song

That child who from Diana’s thought is born
A huntress swift, who do...
D. ALEXANDER NEILL

Atoms consist of a positive nucleus and negative electrons flying around outside it. Electrons close...
SAM KEAN

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
SAM WALTON

Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normal...
SAM YAGAN

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live unde...
SAM HOUSTON

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
SAM KEEN

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly...
SAM KEEN

It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he woul...
SAM LEVENSON

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what...
SAM RAYBURN

The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
SAM RAYBURN

I like power and I like to use it.
SAM RAYBURN

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
SAM RAYBURN

If you want to get along, go along.
SAM RAYBURN

When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
SAM RAYBURN

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
SAM RAYBURN

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
SAM RAYBURN

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
SAM RAYBURN

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to fil...
SAM RAIMI

Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic bo...
SAM RAIMI

Some movies to me are like vampires - they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like tha...
SAM RAIMI

R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.
SAM RAIMI

I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan makin...
SAM RAIMI

I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that ...
SAM RAIMI

My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never...
SAM RAIMI

I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.
SAM RAIMI

Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's ...
SAM RAIMI

It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.
SAM RAIMI

As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I ...
SAM RAIMI

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.

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Sam Neill

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

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