Alex O'Loughlin Quotes

• I’m the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys’ school in Sydney.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I like playing the villain.

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• It’s nice having your work recognized but having people follow you around is kinda weird.

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• 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.

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• Time is the thing. A show like this pulls all your time away from you. Usually I’ll get home from work on a Saturday about 10am (after doing night shooting) and I’ll sleep until Saturday afternoon. Saturday night and Sunday I’m usually feeling wiped out and I’ve not seen Holly all week. It’s a pretty full-on life, but what do you do? I love my work and there are sacrifices.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog.

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Alex O'Loughlin (14)

Birth:	24th August, 1976
Nationality:	Australian
Profession:	Actor, Writer

About

Alex O'Loughlin is an Australian actor, currently starring in CBS's Hawaii Five-0 as Lieutenant Commander Steve McGarrett. His earlier roles include Kevin Hiatt in The Shield, Mick St. John in Moonlight, Dr. Andy Yablonski in Three Rivers, and Stan in The Back-up Plan. He is also the current ambassador for Donate Life America. He has fond memories of often donning a white clown suit with big red polka dots. School was a continuous struggle, caused by learning difficulties that were compounded by ADHD and OCD, and he left when he was 14, after which he held all manner of jobs in a wide range of fields. He enrolled at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, Australia, in 1999. Despite a challenging first year, he went on to graduate from NIDA in June 2002, after completing their highly competitive three-year, full-time Bachelor of Dramatic Art program, to which only a limited number of students are accepted annually.

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