You always draw inspiration from your family or your parents if they've proven to be inspirational. My mother is someone who's always been inspirational to me.

- Dustin Clare

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

- Dustin Clare

When I'm not working, I weight train three times a week and swim and surf as much as I can - in the summer, you usually find me in the water.

- Dustin Clare

I'm passionate about being an actor, but I'm definitely not passionate about being a sex symbol.

- Dustin Clare

New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work, like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone.

- Dustin Clare

I had wanted to be a fish farmer, to be honest with you. I wanted to be an agriculturist. I wanted to have my own fish farm. I was also contemplating surfboard building.

- Dustin Clare

I think I was about 18 before I decided I wanted to pursue acting. I went to drama school in Western Australia when I was 19.

- Dustin Clare

Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young.

- Dustin Clare

'McLeod's Daughters' was my first regular job out of drama school, and my first full-time role. That was great because I learned a lot, in terms of working in front of the camera.

- Dustin Clare