"There`s a great community feel. It`s a holiday destination but it`s still private."

"I have an intense love of this land, and that connection to the countryside and coastal beauty stays with me no matter where I go."

"There are many aspects of living in the United States that I thoroughly enjoy but, as they say, `there`s no place like home and I think that is especially true of New Zealand."

"I have wanted to get a place back here for the last few years and would love to have a little home here. I haven`t yet found the right place but will continue to look and take my time."

"The Americans are a little different that way. They get offended. They don`t realise if someone says, `Hey, you big dick,` it means they like you."

"I really like swing dancing, that`s fun. I took lessons in New York and LA. I`m shit at it but I like it!"

"It`s not my ideal place. Los Angeles is so much about Hollywood and the business is so much a part of your life. There`s a different level of ego here and I don`t really want that to become my daily concern. It`s not a lifestyle I really want. I am still really sceptical about the whole thing and trying to remain realistic. I don`t really go to any of the parties. I went to a couple when I first got here but I was bored shitless by it all. It`s not really my scene."

“In LA it`s kind of common to date some random girl or guy, whereas back home it`s more like you`ll have your group of friends and you`ll all kind of hang out, and then eventually there`ll be a girl in the mix, and if you get on, then the next minute you`ll be together. This whole dating process doesn`t happen.”

“It`s a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood.”

“I`m not a big fan of horror movies, especially the recent teen-slasher sort of ones.”

“A lot of the "scare factor" comes with the editing, the effects, and the music. There were moments when Naomi and I would look at each other and say, "This is embarrassing, people are going to laugh."

“The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I`m a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I`d be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it`s become a habit.”

“I always thought I`d go to university and then get a real job, you know. Now I want to do stuff that really makes me happy. Although I`m still trying to work out what that is. But for me there are always constants.”

“We worked together in Perth on a TV show called Sweat. When I met Heath there was something extremely charismatic about him. Obviously he had talent, and I convinced him to move out of Perth and come to Sydney - the Hollywood of Australia, if you like. So I just convinced him to do that and looked after him when he arrived. We got a flat in Bondi.”

“Most horror films fail to scare me. I think "The Ring" plays more as a psychological thriller. It`s smarter, there`s more character development and some of the themes explored go a little deeper.”

“Heath, I believed in him when I first met him, and helped and supported him. He went on to obvious success in the States and then I had him support me. It can be a lonely, horrible, hard place. It`s great just to have someone to call to say `I know, man, I was there`”

“Boy, we partied, man. They were crazy days, man. Just partying all the time. We`d go surfing - Heath taught me to surf - and we`d get up at 6am and take off to the northern beaches and surf in the sunrise, and then cruise around, and girls and beer and parties.”

“We [Martin, Heath Ledger, and a bunch of other friends] were sitting on the floor and, although I knew the script, at that climactic moment we all just jumped backwards. We screamed like girls. Very manly girls though. And I was thinking, `Oh wow, this could be a very good movie`”

“You just hope that somebody makes it scary or you`re going to look like an idiot!”

“Being an actor it`s our job to tell stories. But, to me, the best stories are the ones of human condition,”