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

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.

Now it wasn’t just that Xena was bisexual and kinda liked her gal pal and they kind of fooled around sometimes, it was ‘Nope, they’re married, man.'

Some people think that acting's about being somebody else and I don't. I think this is how I would be given the same circumstances. And I do it for my own enjoyment.

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.

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