Top 44 Quotes & Sayings by Alex O'Loughlin
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Australian actor Alex O'Loughlin.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
It's nice having your work recognized but having people follow you around is kinda weird.
It's a hobby for me, but I'm never alone if there's a guitar there.
My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog.
The mecca of filmmaking in the world just so happens to be in America. It's quite simply a case of us just going where the work is.
I don't know what I'm really good at. I'm really good at sittin' by the pool. I have to work at that. I'm really bad at auditioning.
I just have to say no to some of the stunts that I love doing so much. I enjoy doing that stuff, but I've learned to let the stuntmen do those.
I'm not the best fly fisherman, but I can fly-fish, because I crack a whip. I learned to crack a whip as a boy... I have skills, mad skills.
I put a bushfire out. It was one of the most incredible things, terrifying. We get them a lot in Australia.
I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won't let me do. Like they won't set fire to me. They won't like let me jump off a 20 story building. There are certain big stunts that it's just impossible to get insurance to let me do, but for the most part I'd say I do probably 75% of my stuff.
I'm a fisherman. I've always loved fishing. I grew up fishing for trout.
I really enjoy doing charity, for a good cause, it's like the least I can do, I really enjoy that stuff. I enjoy giving back.
Surfing is my great passion in Hawaii.
Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying.
I blew one of my knees. I've torn ligaments and tendons, ankles, both shoulders, both wrists.
I love Europe. I don't speak a lick of French, but I speak a bit of Italian. I can get through Italy better than I get through the rest of Europe.
I think if I'd have been an actor who didn't care, I'd have less gray hair, and I'd be a lot less tired.
I live in Hawaii, and the trails and mountains here are just magic.
I do not think I'm a great talent. I think I'm a medium talent, but I think I understand the business and enjoy the business.
In television, the cuts are so quick: bang-bang-bang-bang-bang! I want to shoot two people and sit there for eight minutes and watch them. I've got a lot to learn about television and about the best ways to tell stories directorially in that medium.
The relationships I've had with my wife and children are what mean the most to me.
Surfing and trail running chill me out. I like reading, too. And playing my guitar - I wish I were better.
I receive underwear - some clean, some not. No joke. My assistant who helps me with my fan mail constantly threatens to quit because of what we get sent.
When I talk about character work, I don't really feel like i do much as an actor when I look at other great actors who win big awards for doing incredible transformations.
There have been many times when I thought I was having a logical discussion with a woman, and then I'm left sitting alone, confused, trying to recount how it went down.
I am a big fan of vampires. I've always been obsessed with the genre, and the beautiful romanticism and erotic kind of nature of the immortal being, the undead who lives on human blood.
I've knocked my front teeth out. I've got fake front teeth.
I write music just for me. I'm certainly not good enough to do it on any kind of a level but I enjoy that time because it's quiet.
There are millions of women all around the world who are in dangerous, terrifying situations. It's up to us as storytellers to give people hope, to let people know that there is a way out.
It is such a cut throat industry where you get knocked down so much and get rejected so much. If you do not back yourself up, no one else is going to so you really need to learn to get up, shake the sand off your chest and keep going.
I think as an action director; it comes kind of naturally to me to a certain extent, because I've done so much action myself - as my MRIs would suggest!
Being a husband and a dad are the two most important things in my life.
I like playing the villain.
I've got really fantastic fans from all over the world.
When I am really into a woman, the way I look at other women changes. The other women on the planet kind of fade away. And the majority of my energy goes to that person.
I tore my right shoulder to pieces - three external tears, a labrum tear, and a detachment of the bicep tendon.
I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.
That suspension of disbelief that's required as an actor to live truthfully in imaginary circumstances is different to what needs to happen as a director, in the sense that you are the master of all the moving parts. You create the world in every detail.
There are many things I want to do, so many people I want to work with, so many different opportunities out there as an actor.
I really enjoy doing charity, for a good cause, it’s like the least I can do, I really enjoy that stuff. I enjoy giving back.
Mum’s a musician. She plays piano and has a beautiful voice, so she understands the creative need. Mum lights up when she sees me. Her cheeks go pink – she’s all over me, pulling my hair, pinching my cheeks.
I plead with my Moonlight fans to give this show a chance if they let me give it a chance. I can’t do Moonlight again — it’s finished. The bottom line is that my true fans will follow me where I go.
To have a friend and a comrade as your co-star, especially in a romantic comedy, is really important. It gives you the room. It's easier to give yourself and the other person permission to play.
I was sort of trained in drama. I went to theater school. I started on the stage. Comedy is absolutely an essential part of what we do as actors. But I think in the grand scheme of things, comedy was born from tragedy. First there was tragedy and then there were the comedies.
I've always loved, as an Aussie, comedy is part of my life. My friends and I are always ribbing each other and that's how we get through the days. When it comes to cameras rolling and getting that timing right, the only way to do it and do it well is to throw yourself into it.
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