The White Ribbon Foundation is organization I support. They're bringing awareness of violence against women and I think it's important in our society.

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.

God can inject hope into a absolutely hopeless situation.

It's painful to hold out hope for the things that once brought you joy. You have to find ways to make yourself forget.

Never wait for the alarm clock to wake you up

It's not easy to teach a child how to win.

Statistics don't lie. It's the people who make up the statistics that lie.

Fear; if allowed free rein, would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men, for whom only death could bring release

I'm not saying I'm the only Jewish person who cares about Palestinian people, but unfortunately, their voices are not necessarily heard as loudly as they should be.

The UN doesn't work in a vacuum.

To a good man nothing that happens is evil.

Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.