I had wanted to be a fish farmer, to be honest with you. I wanted to be an agriculturist. I wanted to have my own fish farm. I was also contemplating surfboard building.

McLeod's Daughters' was my first regular job out of drama school, and my first full-time role. That was great because I learned a lot, in terms of working in front of the camera.

I lead a very physical life. I played a lot of sports and I spent a lot of time in the water surfing, swimming. I was a big swimmer.

New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work, like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone.

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young.

You always draw inspiration from your family or your parents if they've proven to be inspirational. My mother is someone who's always been inspirational to me.

When I'm not working, I weight train three times a week and swim and surf as much as I can - in the summer, you usually find me in the water.

Graphic novel genre become really quite popular. It's really a big screen film genre that they have successfully moved into the small screen.

There's always a project around, but you have to pick and choose.

The rig work can be rewarding to pull off, a really good rig in a set of wires where you're throwing yourself up walls and doing moves mid-air. That's just fun.

Writing a novel is like having a dream.

To catch the dream you are chasing, change is required.

90% of what we do daily is not what we think, it's just driven by our desires and not potentials.

Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole.

I've never been on a diet and never will.

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

As citizens, we understand that it is not about what America may do for us. It's about what can be done by us, together.

I have picked up on the terminology of Brother Lawrence, who called praying unceasingly practicing God's presence. In fact, practicing God's presence has been my number one goal for the last year

The collective experience of watching a great film together in a room is a transcendent moment that will never die.

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.