Grant Bowler Quotes

• Making a movie with Lindsay Lohan is not for the faint of heart.

  Grant Bowler

  Heart, Faint Of Heart

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love working in New Zealand. It's just the most beautiful country I've ever been to.

  Grant Bowler

  Beautiful, Country, Beautiful Country

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Grant Bowler

  Special, Fiction, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Grant Bowler

  Thinking, Play, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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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.

  Grant Bowler

  Cutting, Boring, Angle

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Grant Bowler

  Drama, Layers, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Grant Bowler

  Character, Keys, Laughing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Grant Bowler

  Eight, Two, Long

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm a huge fan of classic sci-fi.

  Grant Bowler

  Fans, Classic, Sci Fi

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was born in New Zealand, so I have a lot of family there.

  Grant Bowler

  Born, New Zealand

  "Grant Bowler of Lost, Ugly Betty". Interview with Tim Surette, www.tv.com. February 5, 2009.

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• I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace.

  Grant Bowler

  Thinking, Way, Fantasy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Grant Bowler

  Children, Passion, Two

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

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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.

  Grant Bowler

  Guy, Doe, Circumstances

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I never talk about a job before the contract is signed and I've shot the first three days.

  Grant Bowler

  Jobs, Three, Firsts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love playing bad guys; they're always much more fun than the good guy.

  Grant Bowler

  Fun, Guy, Good Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Grant Bowler

  Break, Disappoint, One Thing

  Source: collider.com

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• I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed.

  Grant Bowler

  Dad, Self, Agents

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't watch the beginnings of many series, I don't know why, maybe because I'm normally working.

  Grant Bowler

  Watches, Knows, Series

  "Grant Bowler of Lost, Ugly Betty". Interview with Tim Surette, www.tv.com. February 5, 2009.

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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.

  Grant Bowler

  Running, Character, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Grant Bowler

  Running, Fun, Fighting

  Source: collider.com

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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.

  Grant Bowler

  Mean, Media, Tvs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Grant Bowler

  Character, Looks, Dynamics

  Source: collider.com

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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.

  Grant Bowler

  Careers, Different, Stories

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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.

  Grant Bowler

  Ignorance, Roots, Evil

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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.

  Grant Bowler

  Moving, Thinking, Order

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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