John Barrowman Quotes

I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.

I did archery when I was in high school. In our gym class we had two weeks of archery and I remember taking the bow and arrow and firing it up and across the street into a car parking lot.

Honestly, the world can be a dark enough place. Light it up.

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.

I would wish that people would accept people for who they are, not be judgemental, allow people to live their lives and enjoy themselves and that would be my wish for people.

Never apologize for being nerdy.

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.

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.'

Have I ever been the shy retiring type? Never. Not since the day I was born.

Love is love, no matter who you fall in love with, love is love, it can be painful, it can be wonderful.

I'm a fan of comic books. I'm a nerd. I'm a geek. I'm all that stuff.

I was the one who taught my sister and my niece how to walk in high heels.

For some reason I seem to be a massive hit with middle-aged women. I seriously don't know what it is.

You have to do bad things in order to become a hero. You have to make sacrifices.

My first professional job was actually at a place called Opryland USA, which no longer exists, but I've been performing since I was a kid.

If you put a label on yourself, people will pigeonhole you.

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.

Fit men walking around and bathing, it would be just like being in Ancient Rome [on a footballers dressing room

If you do something and it goes wrong, you learn from it and you move on.

I don't call myself an actor, I call myself an entertainer, because I don't just do one thing.

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.

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.

I've always said in my career and in my life I only do things I'm interested in.

I'm one who will always speak my mind and say what I feel!

I'm lively when I perform and I always put everything into a show, but when I get home I love lying down in front of the TV and relaxing.

It wasn't until I got involved in Doctor Who that I started doing dramas on television.

In everything I do, I find some of myself, or a lot of myself, and put it into the role.

I live my life openly and freely every day anyway, and do what I want to do, but I don't take any great risks.

I trust the [series] writers when I'm filming, because it's interesting for me to go in every week and see what's going to happen, and the challenge for me as the actor is to make it work.

As an actor, I only play what is in the moment, rather than in the future, but sometimes the past is more important than what is coming up in the future.

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.

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.

Whenever I'm in Glasgow I go and stand outside the front of the house I grew up in, which is in Mount Vernon.

When I was younger I wanted to be an airline pilot, but that lasted for about 30 seconds.

I have a real passion for driving. Earlier on in my life I wanted to be a race car driver. But I don't pay an extortionate amount of money for cars. I'm pretty frugal.

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.

I would wish that people would accept people for who they are, not be judgmental, allow people to live their lives and enjoy themselves and that would be my wish for people.