When you think of famous New Zealanders, there aren't many.

You've got to try and do your best, and the failure is what's funny. But you can't be aware of the failure, you've just got to keep trying to do your best.

I was genuinely starstruck when I met Kermit the Frog. Like many stars here tonight, he's a lot shorter in real life.

There are a lot of good shows that don't get picked up. Like that Ben Stiller pilot, Heat Vision And Jack? That would have been a great show, but somehow it slipped by.

My acting's very understated. I think my sad and happy don't play that differently onscreen.

It's easy to struggle in New York. I think New York is a bit expensive.

I think the radio is kind of cool, because you're really free to do whatever you want, because you can go into another world. Whereas in TV, you have to make that world.

I'm easy to get along with, and intolerant.

At the end of your life, you're lucky if you die.

Now it looks like I'll be known as the musical comedy guy. Which is good news for me. Or I'll be known as the New Zealand idiot.

I don't know, man. Look at me. I've changed. I've grown up. I've got a job, got a career ... I drink coffee now.

At the dawn of light, darkness disappears.

We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

Men like us are good and proud and strong...if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had nothing, we had to learn everything, and living for honor alone has its weaknesses.

Money doesn't talk. It screams.

You're much more believable if you talk in your own voice.

On your journey to your dream, be ready to face oasis and deserts. In both cases, don't stop

I was certainly a child of the '60s, and I came out of that era, and as a young actor, I got cast as a lot of counterculture hippie types.