88 Quotes by John Barrowman

I’m not one of those actors who likes to analyze things too much, so I trust what the writers are doing with the characters, in order to give them their journey. My job is to come in and try to make those words on the page come alive on camera.

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

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

Jack refused to wear the traditional Cuari tunic. ‘If the world is going to end tonight, I’m going out with my trousers on.

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

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.

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.