Rose Matafeo

I'm very ambitious. I'm the kind of person who still feels as if they could win an Oscar. Albeit, with no evidence to support that expectation whatsoever.

Most of what I like doing in performing is connecting with an audience. What's the point of doing standup if you're not doing that?

I would hate to be a standup comedian for ever. It would not be good. It would be the worst.

I wouldn't say I always have the talent to do something - I think I definitely probably have a moderate amount of talent - but I can pretend to have confidence or, I guess, charisma... It's so hard to look at myself like that.

Comedy is quite hard and it takes like a decade to figure out what kind of comedian you are, so don't quit.

You can see that the successful comedians who have come from New Zealand, like Flight of the Conchords, they had the time to become what they are, and go overseas as a fully formed thing.

New Zealand has this funny attitude towards celebrities where we're not so impressed. We are secretly impressed, but we never want to show it, so we're not sycophantic about it.