42 Quotes by Terry O'Quinn

Really, I think of fame as distracting; it's something you have to get around.

It's funny to be discovered by a lot of people who didn't know you before. People always used to say, 'Do you shop at Home Depot?' or 'Does your kid go to such and such school?' They want to know why they know me, even if they don't know my name. I don't think that's a bad thing, by the way; I think it's nice to be kind of anonymously famous.

I like New York in the spring and in the fall. It's one of the best cities to walk that I've ever been in.

When you're convinced that you're right and you believe that you have the license to do anything because you're right, you can be bossy and you can be dangerous. You can be oppressive. You can be a tyrant.

I think that you only occasionally have to play evil because everything you're doing is.

We all hope we have something else to do. We're going to be unemployed actors. It's a consistent state of being a professional actor, in my experience.

It's easier to be healthy in Hawaii than it is, almost anywhere else I've lived. You spend a lot of time outside, in the ocean and on the beach.

I'm not sure it's possible to stay in Hawaii. It's kind of impractical.

I found my faith to be more about my belief, my spirituality, about nature.