Greg Wise

Professions :

Actor

Any woman knows that it takes two people to be a good parent.

woman good parent people

I'm best when I'm feral, when I don't wash or shave or change my trousers for a couple of weeks.

shave best trousers change

The last thing I want to do is get togged up, go out and be polite.

last get go want

I don't have any labels for myself, really. Sometimes, when I am out with my wife, I am just Mr. Thompson. Or at my daughter's school, I'm Gaia's dad. I don't think of myself as Greg Wise, actor.

i-am myself wife daughter

I'm a trained architect. Both my parents were architects.

both parents were architect

I owe it to those around me to keep sane. We all do.

owe keep those me

Acting is not my primary drive in life, although I'd be a very unhealthy person without it.

person drive acting life

Very few of us playing a murderer will actually have killed someone.

us playing will someone

I'm very interested in poo. We don't have a very good relationship with poo, and we should have.

very good should relationship

It's good to explore your darkness.

explore your good darkness

Parties are not my thing; I keep it low-key.

low-key parties keep thing

I'm terribly bad at lying in real life. I flush, look away, do the scratching of the nose, or whatever.

bad look real life

I don't see the point in marriage: if you make a commitment, you make a commitment. Fidelity is important to me; it's about honouring that commitment.

me you marriage commitment

As an actor, you have to understand how you are seen and then play with that. Otherwise, my looks are not important.

understand you important looks

The nuclear family doesn't work. It's very destructive; it grew out of selfishness.

out selfishness family work

Life is about now - some things are just too important to miss.

miss things important life

I think you must be running away from something pretty enormous if you don't want to see a person more than once or twice. I think relationships don't get interesting for quite a while. When the initial heady rush fades, that's when it gets really exciting.

person see think you

My first heartbreak was extreme. I went to Australia for 10 months when I was at school and told the girl I was madly in love with not to come out to see me - and of course, when I came back, she met me at the airport to tell me she'd met someone else.

me girl love school

I don't think women have ever thrown themselves at me, although I'm quite naive about these things, or was when I was available.

things think me women

I am a better listener than talker - but that's partly because I believe rows are often caused by saying things you haven't thought through properly.

i-am better you believe

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