John Barrowman Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.”
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“I don't think nudity is a bad thing, I don't think people should be embarrassed about their bodies, and I don't mind whipping it out.”
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“Never apologize for being nerdy, because un-nerdy people never apologize for being assholes.”
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“I do tend to eat healthily most of the time, but I don't restrict myself. I believe in eating anything and everything in moderation and doing some exercise.”
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“I'm a fan of comic books. I'm a nerd. I'm a geek. I'm all that stuff.”
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“We get the scripts before the table read, but I don't look at them until we go into the table read. I don't want to know, when I'm playing a moment in the current episode, what's going to happen because it might change how I'm playing that.”
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“The one thing that makes 'Torchwood' work so brilliantly and makes it a little bit above the rest of all other sci-fi dramas out there is that we have a sense of humour.”
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“I don't feel sorry for myself, because I'm living my dream. Even when I was a little boy I used to stand in the playground and pretend I was on 'Opportunity Knocks.'”
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“My humour and my work ethic definitely come from my Scottish side, and I have to say the sense of humour doesn't really translate when I'm in America.”
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“It's taken me 30 years to get this way, and I don't intend to let go. I work hard, but I play hard, too, and that's the one part of me that nobody sees. But I intend to be around for a long time yet.”
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“When I was a kid growing up in the States in the late '70s and early '80s, as soon as 'Dallas' came on on a Friday night on CBS at 9 P.M., we stopped everything from that moment on as a family.”
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“In everything I do, I find some of myself, or a lot of myself, and put it into the role.”
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“For some reason I seem to be a massive hit with middle-aged women. I seriously don't know what it is.”
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“When I go to Florida for Christmas I always take my nieces and nephews out on excursions, ... I become like a big kid again. We go on all the big rides at the theme parks or I stick them in go-karts where their feet can't quite reach the pedals. I think that if you can continue to have the child at heart you may grow old physically but you will stay young mentally.”
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“There's a lot of me in Captain Jack and there's a lot of Captain Jack in me. And there is no pun intended.”
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“Honestly, the world can be a dark enough place. Light it up.”
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“Many things shaped my identity as a young boy: a strong selfworth (something that was instilled in all three Barrowman siblings by our parents), my immersion in theatre and music, and my DNA. I was born gay. It's not a choice I – or anyone else who is gay – made. If it were, why on earth would anyone choose to be part of a minority, part of a group that in so many cultures and countries, even in the twenty-first century, is regularly blasphemed, hounded and worse?”
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“I was the one who taught my sister and my niece how to walk in high heels.”
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“I would love to lecture to women on men. I'd tell them everything about men: gay, straight, bi, how we're all the same, how we're all bastards.”
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“You can be in the public eye all the time and still have a private life, but the important thing is to keep in touch with the people who put you there.”
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“I’m an openly gay man playing an omnisexual hero, who is loved on both sides of the Atlantic. How could I not be proud of that?”
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“I'm one who will always speak my mind and say what I feel!”
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“Desperate Housewives' was a good experience, though, as I got to play the bad guy for once. My only complaint was they had me in a lot of sweaters.”
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“I've always said in my career and in my life I only do things I'm interested in.”
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“If you do something and it goes wrong, you learn from it and you move on.”
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“Whenever I'm in Glasgow I go and stand outside the front of the house I grew up in, which is in Mount Vernon.”
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“I find with television, you have to play personality, whereas onstage, everyone talks about 'the character,' and what you do. It's a very different thing, because stage is much bigger, but on television, for things to come across to the public, I think you have to play a bit of your personality.”
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“What I can say that's different in American television... in Britain, they wouldn't cancel something after a couple of episodes. In the States they would. They would just decide it's not working, take it off and put something else in on the fall schedule.”
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“Fit men walking around and bathing, it would be just like being in Ancient Rome [on a footballers dressing room”
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