For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.


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I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love...
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As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
SAM NEILL
When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the gr...
SAM NEILL
I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. T...
SAM NEILL
If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertain...
SAM NEILL
I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not wi...
SAM NEILL
When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.
SAM NEILL
Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
SAM NEILL
People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
SAM NEILL
I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, i...
SAM NEILL
I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
SAM NEILL
I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.
SAM NEILL
I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard a...
SAM NEILL
No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
SAM NEILL
Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to ...
SAM MENDES
It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thi...
SAM MENDES
For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.
SAM MENDES
One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working wi...
SAM MENDES
I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.
SAM MENDES
Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
SAM MENDES
Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets o...
SAM MENDES
I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is differe...
SAM MENDES
You think about taking audiences on a journey.
SAM MENDES
If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
SAM MENDES
I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I ...
SAM MENDES
One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
SAM MENDES
All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which...
SAM MENDES
Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.
SAM MENDES
The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
SAM MENDES
You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
SAM MENDES
I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big m...
SAM MENDES
There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. Th...
SAM MENDES
The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts...
SAM MENDES
You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes,...
SAM MENDES