Grant Bowler Quotes

Doing a film, or being sent scripts to look at a certain character, it's very odd for me. I tend to take it very personally.

People say, 'Well, whose career do you follow? Where do you see your career going? What movie do you want to do next?' And I can't tell you what type of movie I would go and do next. I would have to read the script and feel for a character. And if I feel in my gut for a character, I know that that's somebody I have to play.

In the beginning, I would find a character I understood. That was my focus. Not now - but you basically get offered the exact same thing you just did. Which I find hilarious. I did 'The Vow,' and then I had every love story you can imagine thrown at me. And now I'm getting offers for comedies.

Originally they wanted me to be Buster but I really like the Tobias part.

The way I choose parts is I look at the scripts... I choose a part by whether or not it challenges me.

I don't pick my roles by genre; that's kind of silly.

You know, I'm not saying, 'Oh, because I play a good guy on TV, I need to suddenly be villainous in a movie.' I look at it more like: does this role has a kind of urgency for me in terms of, 'Can I not say no to it for whatever reason?'

You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.

I read a script and I know immediately whether that role is for me or not.

I need to make sure that I'm taking roles that I feel like I can communicate through.

I don't go for glamour roles.

I'm hoping I can evade a type and go for roles based on what I consider plausible and what I consider good.

I know that some of the characters I played were trash. But then, I chose to take up those roles, as I enjoyed doing them.

Pretty much everything that I pick, when it comes to choosing roles, is just based on things and materials that grabs me. It's pretty much the subject matter that I gravitate towards.

I think you work on the roles that draw you in and the stories you want to tell.

Playing dysfunctional characters or crazy characters is only fun if they're well written. So I have been lucky enough to be asked to play crazy people who are very well written.

I'm very instinctive when I choose my roles, and usually, the number one thing has to be the director.

I have never thought of which kind of movie will give me the big break. I have always been more cautious of the roles that I have played.

I am open to any good script and the character I can do justice to.

You read a script, and you know if you need to do it.

I'm very picky when saying yes to a script. I take a very long time to decide myself because I spend a lot of time with this and so to take parts where I think I can take something from my life as well. It must be interesting for me.

The truth of the matter is this - I never look for films specifically, because ultimately if the fundamentals of the character and the script and the director aren't there, it makes it a moot point.

My job, and what I've taken such joy in, is the craft of acting and of creating dynamic and authentic characters, and then finding a way to build them within the confines and with the support of the worlds that I've found myself.

What I had found after the success of Karate Kid II is that an actor basically needs to - a primary requirement on my part as how I view as actor is you have to create a background, you have to create a history of that character and place her into the script that you're reading and carry on forward because you don't know how the future unfolds. This is what storytelling is you place a certain set of circumstances with a certain set of characters and you see what unfolds after an event happens.

As an actor, I've learned to become a detective. You have to figure out who that person is. If the character is a thief, you have to figure out what makes them a thief. Whatever the prevailing idiosyncrasy is, I have to find it in the script.