“I think I'm pretty benign, really, mostly.” — Sam Neill Quote

I think I'm pretty benign, really, mostly.

If you're making films in New Zealand, you can't avoid the landscape. It's certainly more handsome than I am.

Whilst filming 'Jurassic Park,' I watched a hurricane approaching the beach in Hawaii. My co-worker Laura Dern and I thought we might die, but we managed to laugh about it later.

I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

I don't have a chateau in France. There's no private airplane or yacht.

Personally I find the democratic chaos of the Internet fascinating, and for the most part really benign.

How do you survive living in a cell knowing you are innocent? Many of those exonerated whom I have met seem to have a more benign, grateful attitude toward life than those of us who walk free. Many find a religious or spiritual stronghold.

You get thought of in terms of your last job. So if my last job is that of a meat cleaver-wielding character, I will hardly be cast as some benign, older gentleman.

Nico Tinbergen was my doctoral supervisor, and he was a benign, avuncular sort of influence; everybody loved him.