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I've always been into monsters.
I am very much into the paranormal.
Comedy shouldn't be restrained under the belt of normality.
I'm used to sort of improvising a lot when I do my comedies.
I think of myself as an underground name. Quite a cult comic.
As a man, you think, 'Hey, man, I want to be like Bond or Tintin.'
Artists that are perfectionists? We find it hard sometimes to be happy a lot.
I do want to come across something, I do want to feel something and see something.
There comes a time in every man's life when he realises he will never be James Bond.
I had dreams of becoming an officer and a gentleman. But hey: One out of two ain't bad.
Now I'm a big fan [of X-files]. I had to see what all the fuss is about, and I love it.
My optimistic outlook on life is to sort of be positive and take everyone at face value.
When I do the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, I always go across to Loch Ness and stay there.
I don't think you can beat a costumed monster. It's brilliant. I'll take that over CGI any day.
Thor is a legend after all and if you're getting a legend back, you've got to get the Darby in.
I can be a bit movement-orientated and flamboyant because, essentially, I'm a physical comedian.
I'm quite a good reader of people; I like to meet people, and I can tell if they're lying or not.
I've always had a passion for acting, without really realising that that's what I should be doing.
I tried my best [on audition for X-Files], and it worked out. I got the part. So I was flabbergasted.
Comedy helped me out in my teenage years. It saw me through puberty and helped me to deal with dating.
I've never really been into ghosts or spirits, and I've only had a couple of those kind of experiences.
I don't know what it is about 'Godzilla,' but as far as I'm concerned, the more versions of it, the better.
I loved the army, but it didn't really love me. I used to get into trouble because I thought outside the square.
I was in the New Zealand army for like four years, the exact period of when it was on the air, so I never saw it.
That's one of the best things about characters like Indiana Jones. I mean, he's funny. He's done really wicked things.
Whether it be climbing Mount Kilimanjaro or dealing with your children, life is an adventure, and it's how you perceive it.
I have a radio show/podcast called 'The Cryptid Factor,' which is about the search for creatures that may or may not exist.
I missed Breaking Bad and people just go on and on about it until you're blue in the face with envy and you've got to watch it.
That's the first time I've been involved in such a big way as a voice actor and this script [Voltron] is very matter of factly.
I'm probably a monster-of-the-week guy, and that comes back down to my old favorite show, which as a kid was always Scooby-Doo.
I've seen UFOs, and Loch Ness - I've been to Loch Ness a few times looking for Nessie, and that's also a beautiful place to be.
I've been lucky in life, that's for sure, but it all started with being born in the greatest country in the world - New Zealand.
Science and technology are the keys to both our longevity and our demise. Our entire existence on this planet is a double-edged sword.
I think I'm probably a monster-of-the-week guy, and that comes back down to my old favorite show, which as a kid was always 'Scooby-Doo.'
I think Psycho Sam is closer to the real me in some ways which is frightening to admit, but I guess... I mean, I'm definitely into the paranormal.
You're thrown to the side and then you think, oh, there's more to life than what we really can just see in front of us. There's something else going on.
I've always been a big fan of the Yeti, simply because I have an affiliation to Everest - who was the New Zealander, Sir Edmund Hillary, the guy that conquered it.
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.
I do enjoy walking, but there's got to be a goal at end of it. It's one of the reasons I hate treadmills. All that jogging and going nowhere - it's too frustrating.
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.
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.
The freeways of America are like giant veins twisting and turning, rushing life from one zone to the next. The landscape is a giant body just lying there feeling the rumble.
Commercialism in the Western world has got us by the scruff of the neck. It's a technological takeover, and we can't even see it happening because we're too busy enjoying it.
I'd love to be [one of MacGyver's buddies]. I'd watch that one and just think, wow, what a life. Living in Hawaii, driving around in someone's Ferrari, and solving mysteries.
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.
Luckily the script [of X-files episode] was written wonderfully and that became who I was and I was quirky, and I was kind of agitated and not entirely happy, but at the same time, witty.
You've got to have a likeability factor, I think, in your comedy characters. If the guy's really, really funny but you just don't like him or her, then you're never going to root for them.
I get them [auditions] from time to time, and I sometimes get auditions for big dramas, and I often think, well, I'm not going to get that part. This was a big surprise - it was The X-Files.
I guess, on my list, going back to some old American stuff and British stuff that I used to love in the '80s, would be a British show called Dad's Army, which recently just turned into a movie.
'MacGyver' of course, that's probably my favorite show of all time because it was a guy who was so, so smart and could use his wits, and his technical know-how could get him out of any situation.