I've never wanted to play bank managers and real people particularly.

That means more to me, truthfully, than commercial success. To be a loved human being is much more important to me then any of those other things.

It is difficult to go on the next night after you receive a sandbagging.

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every theatre in London.

Running is not, as it so often seems, only about what you did in your last race or about how many miles you ran last week. It is, in a much more important way, about community, about appreciating all the miles run by other runners, too.

We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.

The first movie I appeared in was Carry On Cowboy, though not as an actor. I was just riding horses.