Alex O'Loughlin Quotes & Sayings

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. — Alex O'Loughlin

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. — Alex O'Loughlin

I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney. — Alex O'Loughlin

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. — Alex O'Loughlin

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. — Alex O'Loughlin

It's nice having your work recognized but having people follow you around is kinda weird. — Alex O'Loughlin

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. — Alex O'Loughlin

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. — Alex O'Loughlin

I like playing the villain. — Alex O'Loughlin

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. — Alex O'Loughlin

Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying. — Alex O'Loughlin

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. — Alex O'Loughlin

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. — Alex O'Loughlin

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. — Alex O'Loughlin

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. — Alex O'Loughlin

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. — Alex O'Loughlin

My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog. — Alex O'Loughlin