Alex O'Loughlin Quotes

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.

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• I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.

  

  Rachel Nichols
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• I don't like workouts that make you bulky.

  

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• At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.

  

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• In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

  

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• To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.

  

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• I hate competition.

  

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• Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.

  

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• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

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• The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.

  

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• I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.

  

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• A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

  

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• I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.

  

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• When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I'm so grateful that actually became a reality - and it became a reality in a small town.

  

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• As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.

  

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• The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.

  

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• My normal life is like being on holiday.

  

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• I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.

  

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• We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.

  

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• He shook hands with Margaret. He knew it was the first time their hands had met, though she was perfectly unconscious of the fact.

  

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• Television and movies were our biggest teachers. When we came to the United States, the Vietnam War was just ratcheting up. And so the Asian faces that I saw on the news, they were the face of the enemy. Asian men, particularly, were either small, ineffective, or they were evil. And those messages were deeply, deeply embedded in me for many years.

  

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• The philosophy of jazz represents tolerance, teamwork and inclusion. That's what America is about. The music reflects that.

  

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• I wanted passionately to be a priest.

  

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• I would like to have two or three kids.

  

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• 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.

  

  Alex O'Loughlin
  • Work
  • Great
  • Character