Grant Bowler Quotes
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Making a movie with Lindsay Lohan is not for the faint of heart.
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I never talk about a job before the contract is signed and I've shot the first three days.
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Mind your own business.
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I love playing bad guys; they're always much more fun than the good guy.
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The process of acting, not necessarily the business of acting, but the actual doing of it in the moment is my greatest kind of personal passion, the thing that brings me alive the most. Also, my two children.
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I'm a huge fan of classic sci-fi.
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I think my children have presented one of the biggest lessons so far in my life. It was only when my kids were born that I realized just how much I'd been living my life worried about what everybody thought of me and, even more strangely, worried about what I imagined other people might be thinking about me.
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Money is tighter now, with the advertising dollar spread a lot more thinly across a whole range of media because of the Internet. It means the television networks have less power to produce shows, and TV is where most Australian actors make their money.
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A long-running TV series is a beast in that it demands you stick to one character over a long haul.
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If we spent the majority of our focus just concentrating on our side of the street, not so much on what the next guy is doing, I think I'd get a lot more done - we'd all get a lot more done - and we'd probably have a lot less criticism for everybody else.
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I've actually usually been wary of taking on science fiction as an actor because it's really tough to do. It's really difficult to execute. There's often lots of prosthetics, green screen and special effects, and it can get very technical.
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Television is what we call the long form of storytelling, where we tell stories over thirteen, twenty-two, or twenty-four hours. Miniseries is an eight-hour form of storytelling, and film is a two-hour form. Each and every one of them are important to me, because they're a different modality of storytelling.
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Strangely enough, I find myself more centered in chaos than in calm, and again I'm not sure whether that's a strength or says something weird about me, but I love a crisis. I'm normally very, very organized in the middle of chaos, and then when I have nothing to focus on, extremely disorganized, and I tend to waste a lot of time.
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I love working in New Zealand. It's just the most beautiful country I've ever been to.
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I love motion capture. I think it's the best thing, ever. It's wonderful. It gives you an incredible freedom to just play things out.
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For my money, if I'm playing anything then it has to have some sharp angles on it. It's got to have some edges that you can cut yourself on, otherwise it's boring.
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The truth that I know for sure is that I may have an opinion, but I do not know the truth, and the other thing I know for sure is that certainty is the root of all ignorance and the root of all evil.
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When I really get invested in something, the one thing that really disappoints me is when it breaks its own rules.
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I seem to be incapable of playing that guy that always does the right thing, who always responds well in any circumstance.
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A character, their ability or inability to laugh at themselves should always be a very, very conscious choice. It's a very big key to the nature of a human being.
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I pretty much always choose characters. That's what I do. That's what I look for. I look for dynamics in a script and potential.
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Comedy has to be so much cleaner than drama. You can't layer it in the way you can a dramatic performance. Which is why it's more difficult than drama - you don't have so many tricks.
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The funny thing is, the older I get, the less I enjoy talking when I act. I don't like talking anymore. I like behavior. All of the running and gunning, and the fights and the stunts, is just awesome fun.
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I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace.
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I don't watch the beginnings of many series, I don't know why, maybe because I'm normally working.
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I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed.
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I've been very fortunate in my career to work across a lot of different mediums. I've hosted, I've narrated, I've acted in television, miniseries, film - all of which are very, very different in the way they tell stories.
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Looking back is a form of insanity, given that I could really never understand what everybody else was thinking. I find these days that I'm much more efficient when I just focus on what I need to do in order to move my family forward and get the focus off me.
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I'm a person who doesn't necessarily enjoy feeling vulnerable, so I think my loved ones and my family make me feel vulnerable. Also, being connected with people when I'm working is a very vulnerable place to be.
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I was born in New Zealand, so I have a lot of family there.
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