Coming from New Zealand and Australia is like a tough pre-school for Hollywood. And having been on 'Neighbours,' even though the agents I met with hadn't seen it, they knew it's where Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce had come from. It was a foot in the door.
I know Pentatonix. I knew them before they were even a group.
People forget that, for example, Adele wasn't always the Adele we know. Sam Smith wasn't always the Sam Smith that we know.
Back when Jerry Seinfeld was just another comedian hanging around the clubs, I'd imitate him to amuse myself and the other comics. The club owners would say, 'What are you doing that for? Nobody knows him.'
Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls.
I knew who Bruce Springsteen was before he had his first record.
The Jam went through a phase of wearing satin jackets. But that was pre-getting signed and making it, when we were still playing the pubs and clubs - around '75. Shocking, really - what would you call them apart from 'horrible?' We'd wear these white zip-up bomber jackets with black kind of loon pants and black and white shoes.
Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.
My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened.
The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first.
I saw Chris Rock do standup before he was famous. I was just a teenager. That will always be special to me.
My old man, he's done it very differently from me. He had years of honing his craft and years of doing all that stuff before he even had to worry about 'Game of Thrones.' So he's absolutely established himself as an actor without the fear of having to have a personality as well.
Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain or have an opinion.
Before I was even famous, I was famous on Facebook.
Even before the mainstream knew about P.O.D., we were going for several years underground. For me, those were the times where it really was about the music and really about the fan base.
Some people don't realize that I've had a career pre-commercials.
I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name.
I did a lot of stuff before I became known for horror. I did a lot of small films in the '70s, in all kinds of styles. I worked with all kinds of people when I was just starting out: I was incredibly lucky.
We were a band way before we ever did anything with Disney.
