Greg Wise quotes:

I've built a tree house; because of my architectural training, it's heavily over-designed, with an oriel window sticking out of it and flying foxes coming off it.

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 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.

In Scotland, I have a huge barn full of woodworking tools. I love working with my hands. I basically just make myself bleed a lot. I'm very accident-prone.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I used to work as a tour guide for Americans. I'm convinced that even after four weeks on the road they had no idea where they had been. They were in a bubble.

I am starting to hate airports and the whole business of getting onto the plane. It all takes so long I want to scream.

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

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