With each dream accomplished, bigger ones are put in their place.

I am not going to take a role because there's money. It might extend my checkbook, but not my integrity.

I've learned a lot about what kind of actor I want or do not want to be while being on set. I sit back and observe how other actors treat the totem pole of set politics.

Being half Jewish, we grew up with Christmas trees but had Jewish ornaments.

My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.

Being a young Kiwi lad, a young Polynesian boy, I was pretty close to my family. But when I moved to Sydney, I went from training twice a week, playing touch footy with my mates, to working full-time as a labourer and training professionally.

My job doesn't define my kids in any way. When we go to places, it's about them and it's about us as a family. I think they're proud of me, but I'm just Dad.

As the first member of my immediate family to graduate from college, making higher education more affordable and accessible is a top priority of mine.