Mind your own business. Grant Bowler More Quotes by Grant Bowler More Quotes From Grant Bowler I love working in New Zealand. It's just the most beautiful country I've ever been to. Grant Bowler beautiful-country beautiful country 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. Grant Bowler actors special fiction 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. Grant Bowler angle boring cutting 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. Grant Bowler play giving thinking 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. Grant Bowler layers drama way 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. Grant Bowler keys character laughing Making a movie with Lindsay Lohan is not for the faint of heart. Grant Bowler faint-of-heart heart 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. Grant Bowler careers different stories I'm a huge fan of classic sci-fi. Grant Bowler classic sci-fi fans I was born in New Zealand, so I have a lot of family there. Grant Bowler new-zealand born I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace. Grant Bowler fantasy way thinking 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. Grant Bowler ignorance roots evil I seem to be incapable of playing that guy that always does the right thing, who always responds well in any circumstance. Grant Bowler guy circumstances doe I never talk about a job before the contract is signed and I've shot the first three days. Grant Bowler three jobs firsts I love playing bad guys; they're always much more fun than the good guy. Grant Bowler good-guy guy fun 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. Grant Bowler order moving thinking I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed. Grant Bowler agents dad self I don't watch the beginnings of many series, I don't know why, maybe because I'm normally working. Grant Bowler series knows watches A long-running TV series is a beast in that it demands you stick to one character over a long haul. Grant Bowler running character long 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. Grant Bowler kids children thinking
