88 Quotes by John Barrowman

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.

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.

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.

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.’

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’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.

We get the scripts before the table read, but I don’t look at them until we go into the table read. I don’t want to know, when I’m playing a moment in the current episode, what’s going to happen because it might change how I’m playing that.

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

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.