A lot of people don’t believe I was a soldier. They look at my luscious hair and wacky bow-tie collection and immediately put me down as some kind of supernatural geek. Rhys Darby Read Quote
In New Zealand, we have a thing called ‘tall poppy syndrome,’ which, you might not have heard of it, but it’s essentially where – it happens in small populations usually, but can actually happen in the U.K. – where, if someone sticks out, they get their head cut off because they are being outside the ordinary or they are showing off. Rhys Darby Read Quote
I’ve never thought of myself as a writer. I still don’t, despite all the writing I’ve done. Rhys Darby Read Quote
I find Godzilla exciting because he/she/it comes from the sea. It’s entirely plausible that it could be real. Yes it is! It doesn’t take a huge stretch in the imagination to imagine that something may be living at the deepest depths of one of our oceans. Rhys Darby Read Quote
We were Londoners for about seven years during the decade they called the naughties. My first son, Finn, was born over there. He’s actually very proud of that fact. Rhys Darby Read Quote
I remember when I got my first (and only) iPad – excitement filled the air as I opened the box and stared at what was essentially a big iPhone but without the phone part. I knew I really wanted it, and at the same time, I knew I didn’t need it. Rhys Darby Read Quote
My turn on ‘Letterman’ turned out to be a blast. The audience were delightful, and they lapped up my silly Kiwi humour. Even the big man himself came over to shake my hand after my set. Rhys Darby Read Quote
The touring comic is a lonely soul, sometimes dabbling into conversation with a colleague in the green room, but on the whole, we just stand around and try to cope with the random diversity that comes with the ‘job.’ Rhys Darby Read Quote
A touring comic’s typical day roughly amounts to an hour of being laughed at and 20 minutes of being photographed. The other 22 hours and 40 minutes are spent in silence. Rhys Darby Read Quote
