When you decide to become an opera singer, it's a commitment that allows nothing else to interfere. Even your family - and I have a young daughter - has to take second place.

Comedies are often half-hour programs and then drama and action series are often an hour.

Treat everyone the same until you find out they're an idiot.

When you decide to become an opera singer, it's a commitment that allows nothing else to interfere. Even your family - and I have a young daughter - has to take second place.

I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.

My plan is to shock people with what I can do, because I've got a few sides to me that I've never used on screen.

We live at the edge of the world, so we live on the edge. Kiwis will always sacrifice money and security for adventure and challenge.