I get to do all these really nice, little culty things. It seems to be the world that keeps inviting me back.

Happiness is a choice. You grieve, you stomp your feet, you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.

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.

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

I've tried to divide my time between the US and New Zealand, but it's difficult, and I suddenly realized that I like acting here in Los Angeles anyway. Because when you first come here; especially from New Zealand, you go, This is the ugliest, nastiest, grayest, smoggiest town in the world, and then your scale of beauty adjusts and suddenly you think, Oh, isn't it beautiful, not too much smog today!

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

I think the people running climate change denial campaigns are sociopaths.