It's worth it. It's worth giving up the sun and magic.
I grew up in the art world.
If you get into the area of judging the character you're playing you're getting into a sticky area.
No one is black and white or good or bad or happy or sad or what have you. [All have] particular idiosyncrasies that make them fascinating and that's how I tend to approach a character.
There's a myth about actors saying, 'Oh no, that's not me on screen at all. I'm just acting. ' OK, if I were to say to you that's not me, that's fine. And I would tell you that I don't behave like a villain everyday, and that's true, I don't. But to say there's absolutely none of me in there is ridiculous.
The experience you have making the movie is all you have; when the movie's finished, that's for other people. But while you're doing it, that's your time on the planet, so you want it to be good.
I think that's all you can hope for as an actor when you read a script; that after the first thirty pages it has some meaning to it.
For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.
The only courage you will need is the courage to live the life you are meant to.
Many people believe that they were made by their parents: 'I didn't ask to be born. ' they cry. This is completely wrong. Please try to remember when your were five. If you try then you will remember that this memory had no beginning. It seems as if you can remember living infinitely; that your life didn't begin when you were born but continues without limit.
New Zealanders are so chill. I know they say Australians are chill, and I feel like Australians are chill, but I keep thinking, "If they get drunk, they would commit a hate crime. " Now that is an extreme position to take, but it's just a feeling I get. New Zealand people, I don't see that.