Greg Wise Quotes & Sayings

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“It's good to explore your darkness.”

“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 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.”

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

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

“As a teenager, I used to travel everywhere with my guitar. I appreciated the fact it was with me, but it was always an absolute pain to carry around - even though, in those days, you could take in on a plane as hand luggage.”