Xavier Samuel quotes:

I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as a young man.

Everyone brings their own particular skill set to the job, and acting training can work for a lot of actors, and it can't. I've seen a lot of really good actors go into acting schools and then come out a little bit corrupted.

In Australia, getting an audition can be a rarity. There just aren't as many opportunities.

Acting is like sex, it's possible if your partner is bad, but it's better if they're good.

It's kind of bizarre, isn't it? Having that kind of attention. I'm not under the microscope in the same fashion that a lot of the other cast members are, so I think I can slide under the radar a little bit more, but getting any attention at all is completely new for me.

I've been doing American auditions for a while, and it always felt sort of like sending these audition tapes off into the ether. So just hearing anything back from anyone was kind of startling.