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Sam Neill Biography

Nigel John Dermot Neill DCNZM OBE (born 14 September 1947) known professionally as Sam Neill, is a New Zealand actor who first achieved leading roles in films such as Omen III: The Final Conflict, Possession, and Dead Calm and on television in Reilly, Ace of Spies. He won a broad international audience in 1993 for his roles as Alisdair Stewart in The Piano and Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park, a role he reprised in 2001's Jurassic Park III. Neill also had notable roles in Merlin, The Hunt for Red October, Peaky Blinders, and The Tudors. In 2016, he starred in Hunt for the Wilderpeople alongside Julian Dennison, to great acclaim.

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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.

Big, Boat, Bottles, Champagne, Pop, Take

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.

Apprehension, Case, Cases, Come, Firsts, Played

The core of the film [Hunt for the Wilderpeople] is that relationship. Whether they're getting on or whether they're not. If that relationship works, then everything else works as well. And you kind of almost, sort of, gives into a realm of something like New Zealand magic realism. . . There is no world in which social work is actually pursues some kid into the woods in this manner.

Giving, Kids, Like, Magic, Magic Realism, Work

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!

Choices, Drowned, Eggs, Laboratory, Rain, Terribly

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.

Days, Film, Gotten, Roles, Thinking, Western

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

America, Profound, Wire, Watch, Entertainment

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

Dexter, Fond, Addicted

Big budgets don't necessarily give you big films.

Big, Bigs, Film, Films, Give, Giving

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

Encourage, Encouragement, Job, Jobs, People, Possible

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

Actor, Actors, Busy, Offers, Want

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.

Know, Looks, Remember, Sort, Think, Thinking

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

Dumbing Down, Has Beens, Hate, Movies, Say, Sort

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.

Age, Book, Huge, Looks, Sort

Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.

Frightening, Never Quit, Quite, Regret

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.

Auditorium, Inebriation, Men, Performance, Play, States

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

Antsy, Job, Jobs, Know, Nervous, Next

Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.

Eye, Eyes, Horizon, Needs, See

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

Dense, Long, Scary, Way

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.

Acting, Actors, Bizarre, Elements, Sea

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

Actors, Generally, People, Thoughtful

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