Greg Wise Quotes

I do a little bit of acting, but I wouldn't call myself an actor.

I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.

As actors, you do have to be aware of your audience. You can't act in a vacuum, even if that audience isn't exactly present with you.

I've always felt that almost every part I've played has been a character part. I mean, I look at it that way. I can't help how I look or how I seem to people.

The interesting thing is, when you play a real-life character or someone based in a book, you always come up against people's preconceptions of what they have in their heads.

I'm not entirely comfortable saying I'm an actor, because it seems like a very weird, almost dorky thing to say you are.

I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions.

Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.

Acting is an art and a science and there is more to me then that young blonde kid.

Sometimes I'm playing somebody that I may have a problem with. Your job as an actor is not to go only play things that make you look good.

I am an actor. What I am on screen is what matters.

A lot of people don't know that: that Artist is my name.

Theatre contributes in the growth of an actor and lets one know the real worth of acting.

I don't really think about the fact that a lot of people are watching 'DSDS' or about the way I should phrase my sentences.

With realistic and deglamourised roles and live sound, the charisma of a star is not enough. Can you be many different people?

In stand up, you get an awareness of how you come across, but in acting there is almost a hyper-awareness on how you might be physically perceived.

With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.

I want to break into the acting industry. It's something I have a great deal of respect for; it's a passion of mine. It's so amazing, the differences between acting and being an athlete, but the one commonality is they both evoke emotion in the viewer. And those emotions are real. So I think that's pretty cool.

Whether it's t-shirt and jeans or full monster suit, I'm still an actor underneath it all, and a good director is going to know that.

As an actor, you need everything you can get to be truly scary and truly memorable.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I usually look at things like that from an audience perspective first, then have a closer look at the specific character they're talking about me for.

I think you have to be careful not to do too much as yourself. Otherwise you stop getting the acting roles, and at the end of the day that's what I love.

I know what my talents are, and at the end of the day I'm an actor who can dance.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.