Zealander Quotes

#1. I don't have an anti-Hollywood feeling. It's just I'm a New Zealander. I was born in New Zealand, and it's where my house is, and my family goes to school there. My interest is to remain in my homeland and make films. I don't really want to relocate myself to other countries in the world to work.

Peter Jackson

#2. I've always had the dream of going to New Zealand and meeting a lovely New Zealander in a bar.

Jack Barakat

#3. I lived in England for a long time, and even the English didn't think me as one of theirs. In America I'm not really accepted. In New Zealand now, I don't think they even think of me as a New Zealander.

Andrew Niccol

#4. The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have to go about my life, just being easy-going New Zealander Rose. Sometimes I can inhabit a feisty, vicious character. Sometimes I can inhabit a painfully shy British girl, or whatever it might be.

Rose McIver

#5. I am a New Zealander, but I don't want to swallow New Zealand identity in one gulp.

Eleanor Catton

#6. I was shooting a mini-series for Sundance/BBC, called 'Top of the Lake,' that was shot by Jane Campion, who's a beautiful native New Zealander and famous film director. The role I was playing was very intense, and they shaved half my hair off. So, I looked like this post-apocalyptic character.

Jay Ryan

#7. My family comes from New Zealand, but I'm a London girl. I was born and raised in London, but I've got the blood of a New Zealander, so I always kind of felt like I didn't belong - in a good way.

Natasha Bedingfield

#8. The Prime Minister is head of team but its not a one woman act. I've been called all those things. Intellectual, sharp-tongued, all true. But what New Zealander is like is to know that someone is in charge and in the end the buck stops with the Prime Minister.

Helen Clark

#9. Trust me: I don't wish I was a New Zealander.

James Spithill

#10. The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.

Edmund Hillary

#11. The European drivers have adapted to this circuit extremely quickly, especially Paul Radisich who's a New Zealander.

Murray Walker

#12. I do think of myself very strongly as a New Zealander, but when I moved out to the States, I was aware that I didn't want to just live in a satellite community of only other New Zealanders.

Rose McIver

#13. No point in imagining anything," said Granny. "Things are bad enough as they are.

Terry Pratchett

#14. I was into Ted Nugent, I was a Nugent guy. I was a skateboarder listening to Ted Nugent.

Ian MacKaye

#15. When you shoot nude, you always find a way to, like, cover yourself up in a way. So you really don't feel like you're truly naked because you're still covering yourself.

Ronda Rousey

#16. Henry Miller is a famous writer whose work has fallen out of fashion, but I strongly recommend that readers who don't know his work pick up a book and experience this writer's zealous, crazy, inventive, funny, sexy, often delirious prose.

Siri Hustvedt

#17. Writing, like drugs and recreational sex, becomes an activity associated with youth.

Betsy Lerner

#18. I want people to recognize Luther Allison when I play.

Luther Allison

#19. An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.

Ad Reinhardt

#20. The first time I saw you," I say, "I had a premonition. I had the feeling I'd found the thing I'd always been waiting for. The next time I saw you, it was the same. And every time after it's been the same.

Hilary Thayer Hamann

#21. The scripts that I've been getting are of epic proportion. People want me to lead the big armies.

John Boyega

#22. I don't like anything about Drake.

DMX

#23. Do close your mouth. You look like a cow that's being artificially inseminated.

Nick Wilgus

#24. Alanna Carrington, head witch of the Philadelphia Coven, hurtled his way, and with her, trouble was a guarantee.

Katherine McIntyre

#25. The last part of life is a spiritual concern. You need to find a context to put your life into, that will allow you to go through it with as much grace and balance as possible, even if there is rebellion and adventure and exploration and resistance.

James Cromwell

#26. Well, it's amazing what you can find in this world if you're willing to sleep with people.

Douglas Coupland