John Barrowman Quotes

My first professional job was actually at a place called Opryland U.S.A., which no longer exists, but I've been performing since I was a kid. ~ John Barrowman

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. ~ John Barrowman

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. ~ John Barrowman

Cut! Go again."
And again, and again, and again. Finally, after the fourth of fifth take I yelled down the hill to the director: "This isn't a fucking marathon! If we're going to go again, tell him on the bloody bike to slow down."
David turned to me and said, "Having a bit of trouble, Captain?"
"That's all right for you to say," I laughed breathlessly, "but I'm carrying a rucksack on my back with your fucking hand in a glass jar inside ~ John Barrowman

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

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. ~ John Barrowman

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

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

Whenever I do get to work with John Barrowman, it is absolutely a joy. We just crack each other up. ~ Katrina Law

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

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. ~ John Barrowman

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

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

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

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.' ~ John Barrowman

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. ~ John Barrowman

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

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

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

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

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. ~ John Barrowman

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. ~ John Barrowman

I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to theatre, and if that child has a great experience at a pantomime they will continue to come year after year. ~ John Barrowman

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. ~ John Barrowman

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. ~ John Barrowman

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. ~ John Barrowman

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. ~ John Barrowman

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

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. ~ John Barrowman

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. ~ John Barrowman

I am who I am firstly because of genetics, and, running a very close second, because of choices: ones my parents made, such as choosing to emigrate to America; ones their parents made, like my Papa Butler opting to ignore medical advice and instead warming my mum in the oven to keep her alive; and very conscious ones that I've made for myself. ~ John Barrowman

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? ~ John Barrowman

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. ~ John Barrowman

Yet if I was asked to do this again - in fact, if I was ever asked to repeat any of my experiences - I'd have to say, fuck it, bring them on. I've no regrets.
This is what it means to be alive. ~ John Barrowman

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. ~ John Barrowman

Never apologize for being nerdy, because unnerdy people never apologize for being assholes. ~ John Barrowman

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy. ~ John Churton Collins

sighed. "Bring her around sometime." She padded lithely over to me and took my wrist and looked at my watch. Her breathing had slowed. Her leotard was sweat-dark and fitted her almost as closely as her healthy hide. She beamed down at me. "I knew you'd be nice about it, Trav. She'll be here in twenty minutes." I stared up at her. "You are a con artist, McCall. ~ John D. MacDonald

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time. ~ John Ruskin

When I met Paul Ryan 22 years ago, he was a student at Miami of Ohio volunteering on my campaign. ~ John Boehner

Modesty, she deserved at least two-thirds of the suitcase. In the end, we both lost. So it goes. Our flight didn't leave until noon, but Mom woke me up at five thirty, turning on the light and shouting, "AMSTERDAM!" She ran around all morning making sure we had international plug adapters and quadruple-checking that we had the right number of oxygen tanks to get there and that ~ John Green

Every time you have a new tax, or every time you have to pay really an inordinate amount for a regulation, it's really stifling this country and really stifling American business. ~ John Raese

Really, the only thing a psychiatrist can do that a good (fishing) guide can't is write prescriptions. ~ John Gierach

They acted because they loved acting, but also, let's be honest here, to be noticed. All they wanted was to be seen. ~ Emily St. John Mandel

If one of you is walking through a dark valley personally of course it affects the marriage. But it is not about the marriage. ~ John Eldredge

What other significance can our existence have than to be ourselves fully and completely? ~ John Macmurray

The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long. ~ John Milton

You will be remembered in life only for your passions! ~ John C. Maxwell

You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone ~ John Ciardi

Kentucky has always said you can't really make bourbon outside of Kentucky because it's a combination of the barrels and the limestone-fed springs that give us the water. That's our story, and we're sticking to it. ~ John Yarmuth

It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery. ~ John Frederick Boyes

The onset of bayonets in the hands of the valiant is irresistible. ~ John Burgoyne

The study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and insincere. To be driven to look to legality rather than to equity blurs the view of truth and justice. ~ John Lancaster Spalding

If people were rain, I was drizzle. She was hurricane. ~ John Green

The way to achieve your goals is step by step, you just need to build enough track, to be ahead of the train." ~ John Milton Lawrence ~ John Milton Lawrence

But she believed there was a thin line between accepting one's fears and giving in to them altogether. ~ John Corey Whaley

You'd forgive me for Claire - but not for killing your ... men. He glanced at the two Craddocks, spotty as a pair of raisin puddings and - Grey's look implied - likely no brighter. ~ Diana Gabaldon

It never ceases to amaze me that Hollywood made "Pretty Woman," a love story between a hooker and her john. ~ Andrew Goldman

Don' keep ya guard up when nobody ain't sparrin' with ya. ~ John Steinbeck

A system of logical instructions that an automaton can carry out and which causes the automaton to perform some organized task is called a code. ~ John Von Neumann

Everything which bars freedom and fullness of communication sets up barriers that divide human beings into sets and cliques, into antagonistic sects and factions, and thereby undermines the democratic way of life. ~ John Dewey

It's a paper town. I mean look at it, Q: look at all those cul-de-sacs, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All those paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenient store. Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. All the thing paper-thin and paper-frail. ~ John Green

It's like being best friends with a fairy-tale giant; Tiny Cooper can't help but hurt you. ~ John Green

Historically the great movements for human liberation have always been movements to change institutions and not to preserve them intact. It follows from what has been said that there have been movements to bring about a changed distribution of power to do - and power to think and to express thought is a power to do- so that there would be a more balanced, a more equal, even, and equitable system of human liberties. ~ John Dewey

Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you-because you know how to perform them-have no choice, either ~ John Irving

Don't whine, complain, or make excuses. ~ John Wooden

A highly credible leader under-promises and over-delivers. ~ John C. Maxwell

They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children. ~ John Lancaster Spalding

It's a hell of a thing to say good-bye to your whole life. ~ John Scalzi