Top 885 Quotes & Sayings by New Zealander Authors - Page 14

I can be anything.

I put on close to 60 pounds for 'Genesis,' an independent movie from New Zealand.

If I could be working every day, I would be.

With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.

It would be a really great to do a Marvel film - not even playing a superhero: just being part of that universe would be amazing.

As a filmmaker, you want nothing more than to have people say, 'I love your movie.'

During my years of professional cricket in England, I realised that although the Australians were talented players, tactically they were a bit naive when compared to those who played full-time on the English circuit. You might find this arrogant, but that was the reality then.

'Never look back' is my philosophy.

I am still in shock and awe at being fired.

You get what you're good enough to take.

Historically, diversity has been a real issue for superhero comics - so we need to do something about it, crafting strong, modern heroes for a modern audience.

Ricky Baker is very different to me. You could see some similarities, but he's a little rebel. He's a rebellious kid.

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really.

One of my goals is to play the Olympics in 2016. If you're able to represent your country in the Olympics everyone will understand you as a player and not many people do get to go to the Olympics.

I've played such good golf, and it was hard coming up and it wasn't easy in any matches or any shots. It means a lot. I think hopefully it will mean a lot to New Zealand because I'm the next winner of the U.S. Amateur after Danny Lee.

I've got kids now and they will constantly pull you into the here and now - they are very present and very vivid.

Commercial success and quality are not necessarily allied.

Thanks to a lot of people, not just myself, 'Whale Rider' had an amazing impact emotionally, and people remember it. I count myself very lucky that all those doors were unlocked, I just had to open them.

My world is not spectacle and explosion. It's two people talking.

Of course cake is not bread. Is this why Americans are fat? You confuse cake with bread?

America's moved so much of its production and manufacturing offshore, it's become a nation of middlemen.

There are very few things in the world that make me feel a feeling, really.

My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years.

When I moved to Los Angeles, aged 54, I printed out Winston Churchill's phrase, 'Never, never, never give up', and stuck it on my fridge. I had no idea what was going to happen, but I knew I had to keep on going.

I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man.

There's always space for me to grow and I think that experimenting and making mistakes is gonna get me to this position where I'm trying to be is always changing.

There are a great number of people from New Jersey who go on to have pretty successful careers.

I think it's really rare to see women on television who are brilliant, selfish, vain, fallible - and I feel like I have all those capacities in myself, so it's good to see people in the media representing all of those things.

As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed.

But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.

When you lose for the All Blacks it's not a nice feeling. Expectations on us are pretty high. We have high standards and we know if we've let ourselves or let the jersey down.

Every person has parallel tracks. You have your personal life or your life as an artist, or whatever it is you do.

Every name in a TV show has to be run by the legal department first.

I'm turning 22, so I want to start getting into work that reflects where I'm at in life now.

I had to do a Northern England accent once, and I didn't have much time, so I went and pored through YouTube. There are all sorts of resources out there. The Internet has made that much more affordable. Don't break your neck to spend your money.

Before I found out you couldn't get bitten by a radioactive spider and shoot webs out of your wrist, I wanted to be a superhero when I grew up - until I was, like, 8.

I race six events. I specialise in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle, and it's not impossible, but it is hard to be able to race every single race, and day after day as well.

Just like using an instrument, a song calls for different things.

If we are genuinely committed to promoting a culture of peace, as individuals we must look to our values and ensure that we all exhibit a peace loving life to our nation's children.

I know my mother-in-law would drive two hours to go see a movie that I'm in.

I always think about the settlers who moved to New Zealand in the 1800s. They hadn't even been to the place before. They just packed their bags and shipped over knowing they'd never see their family again or be able to speak to them - they'd maybe get a letter if they were lucky.

I've always had this rule of thumb: If you have fun making it, then someone will have fun watching it.

Chinese people as consumers, while they've always valued food and beverage for the health food qualities, they are also now wanting it in terms of other values: 'Does this speak about my position in society? Am I now middle-class, and does this matter to me?'

It's a funny thing when you think you're dead. You're not terrified of it anymore. There's a sort of a epiphany to religious thing; it's not sort of church-based, but you end up with a serenity which you didn't have before, and I just simply enjoy it. It really does sound stupid, but I've got to tell you it's made my life.

When I was 13, my mom checked me into a modeling agency. Then, out of nowhere, they asked me to audition for a TV show, which I did, and I got going from there.

I don't need a pool room with medals and everything hanging up.

What does 'Ngaio' mean? I don't know. Like many Maori words, it has a number of meanings - clever, light on the water, a little bug - but I don't know which my parents had in mind.

The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing.

I love smart and curious people. I value intelligence in my friends and relationships.

The themes that I explore, Taika Waititi also explores: how teaching children a sense of 'us and them' breeds a sense of superiority and dehumanises what one perceives as 'otherness'; and why this theme is relevant to today's rise in the far-Right, how children and youth are indoctrinated into extremism and terrorism.

Having glue stuck to your face in winter is not fun. It freezes as it hits the skin.

I learnt a lot from a psychological point of view about having to move on and flush things and not live on previous mistakes.

By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life.

My greatest fear is flying. And I do a lot of flying, so that's a bummer.

I had been laughed at my whole life through school, and I never really thought of it as a vocation. I mean, I started off as a soldier, and then I went into the university thinking I was going to be a journalist, but comedy kind of fell on my head and demanded I pursue it.

President Bush says he is concerned about the Iraqi people, but if Iraqi people are dying in numbers, then American policy will be challenged very strongly.

It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.

I've had a pretty chequered past, you know, as a kid, as a troubled kid.

Racing, for me and for most people that watch it, it's about personalities.