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

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

Xena and Gabrielle were a couple...in the end, it was if not explicitly said, it was implicit that...yeah, they totally were.

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.

We actually did quite a lot of comedy on 'Xena'. The whole show was very tongue-in-cheek.

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.

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.