John Barrowman Quotes
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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'm a fan of comic books. I'm a nerd. I'm a geek. I'm all that stuff.
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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've always said in my career and in my life I only do things I'm interested in.
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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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You know, every year 'Torchwood' has become something a little different than it was before. It's still sci-fi, but it doesn't just deal with spaceships and aliens all the time, because we've done that. Our science fiction is more psychological.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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If you put a label on yourself, people will pigeonhole you.
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I am not one of those actors who dwells on the histrionics and the subtext and future text of the character. I deal with the scenes that I'm doing at that specific time, because if I do that, they play in more of a real way.
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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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Never apologize for being nerdy, because un-nerdy people never apologize for being assholes.
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I think my biggest appeal for fans is probably the fact that I'm honest. I'm up front about who I am. I'm a little naughty. I have a naughty side and everybody knows that. But I know when to use that and when not to.
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Have I ever been the shy retiring type? Never. Not since the day I was born.
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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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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.
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It wasn't until I got involved in Doctor Who that I started doing dramas on television.
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Some people are gay. Get over it!
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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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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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If you do something and it goes wrong, you learn from it and you move on.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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