Home / Authors / Grant Bowler Books

Grant Bowler

Grant Bowler Books

Actor

Grant Bowler, born on July 18, 1968, is a talented actor with a rich experience in the film and television industry. He has won the hearts of audiences with his exquisite acting skills and unique charm.

No books found for this author.

Related Quotes

“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.”

Thinking Giving Play Wonderful Incredibles Best Things Capture

Author:Grant Bowler

“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.”

Looks Character Scripts Dynamics

Author:Grant Bowler

“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.”

Running Fighting Fun Enjoy Talking Behavior Funny Things

Author:Grant Bowler

“When I really get invested in something, the one thing that really disappoints me is when it breaks its own rules.”

Break One Thing Disappoint

Author:Grant Bowler

“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.”

Kind Children Two Moments Passion Process Acting Alive

Author:Grant Bowler

“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.”

People Thinking Feels Persons Feelings Enjoy My Family Connected Vulnerable Loved Ones

Author:Grant Bowler

“Mind your own business.”

Mind Own Business Mind Your Own Business Mind Your Own

Author:Grant Bowler

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Done Guy Next Sides Focus Streets Criticism Majority Concentrating

Author:Grant Bowler

“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.”

Enough Focus Middle Waste Crisis Chaos Calm Not Sure Organized Disorganized

Author:Grant Bowler

“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.”

People Thinking Children Might Kids Born Lessons I Realized Worried My Children Living My Life

Author:Grant Bowler

“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.”

Thinking Needs Moving Form Order Given Focus My Family These Days Insanity Efficient Looking Back

Author:Grant Bowler

“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.”

Knows May Evil Opinion Ignorance Roots Certainty

Author:Grant Bowler

“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.”

Way Different Stories Film Careers Television Mediums Fortunate

Author:Grant Bowler

“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.”

Long Two Important Different Stories Film Form Hours Four Television Twenties Eight Storytelling Thirteen Twenty Two

Author:Grant Bowler

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

Country Beautiful New Zealand Beautiful Country

Author:Grant Bowler

“A long-running TV series is a beast in that it demands you stick to one character over a long haul.”

Long Character Running Tvs Demand Sticks Series Beast Haul Tv Series Long Haul

Author:Grant Bowler

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

Knows Watches Series

Author:Grant Bowler

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

Self Grew Dad Grew Up My Dad Agents Mum Employed Queensland Insurance Agent

Author:Grant Bowler

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

Guy Fun Bad Guys Good Guy

Author:Grant Bowler

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

Firsts Jobs Three Shots Contracts

Author:Grant Bowler

“I seem to be incapable of playing that guy that always does the right thing, who always responds well in any circumstance.”

Wells Doe Seems Guy Circumstances Right Thing Incapable That Guy

Author:Grant Bowler

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

Thinking Way Fantasy Treats Realism Commonplace

Author:Grant Bowler

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

Born New Zealand

Author:Grant Bowler

“I'm a huge fan of classic sci-fi.”

Fans Huge Classic Sci Fi

Author:Grant Bowler

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

Heart Faint Of Heart

Author:Grant Bowler

“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.”

Should Humans Character Bigs Choices Human Beings Ability Laughing Keys Conscious Inability

Author:Grant Bowler

“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.”

Way Difficult Comedy Drama Performances Tricks Dramatic Layers Cleaners

Author:Grant Bowler

“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.”

Ifs Cutting Edges Boring Angle

Author:Grant Bowler

“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.”

Actors Difficult Fiction Special Effects Tough Green Science Fiction Screens Special Effects Prosthetics

Author:Grant Bowler

“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.”

Mean Whole Shows Actors Media Produce Television Tvs Internet Dollars Spread Advertising Range Australian

Author:Grant Bowler

About the Author

Born: July 18, 1968
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 30

Related Topics

Thinking Character Focus Guy Television Way Actors Born Children Different

Popular Topics

People Ifs Thinking Knows Men World Way Want Love Life Inspirational Needs Giving Feels Should Writing Trying Years Mind Firsts

Books & Sources

Similar Authors

Steven KnightBrowse related quotes
Nicolas CageBrowse related quotes
Clint EastwoodBrowse related quotes
Steven SpielbergBrowse related quotes
Sam NeillBrowse related quotes
Andy SerkisBrowse related quotes
Benedict CumberbatchBrowse related quotes
Kevin SpaceyBrowse related quotes
Christopher WalkenBrowse related quotes
Ang LeeBrowse related quotes