Alex O'Loughlin

Actor

1976-08-24

Alex O'Loughlin is an Australian film and television actor. He is widely known for portraying Steve McGarrett in the CBS series Hawaii Five-0.

Quotes by Alex O'Loughlin

My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog.
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There are millions of women all around the world who are in dangerous, terrifying situations. It's up to us as storytellers to give people hope, to let people know that there is a way out.
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I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won't let me do. Like they won't set fire to me. They won't like let me jump off a 20 story building. There are certain big stunts that it's just impossible to get insurance to let me do, but for the most part I'd say I do probably 75% of my stuff.
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I just have to say no to some of the stunts that I love doing so much. I enjoy doing that stuff, but I've learned to let the stuntmen do those.
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Surfing is my great passion in Hawaii.
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I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.
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I blew one of my knees. I've torn ligaments and tendons, ankles, both shoulders, both wrists.
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Surfing and trail running chill me out. I like reading, too. And playing my guitar - I wish I were better.
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I live in Hawaii, and the trails and mountains here are just magic.
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I'm a fisherman. I've always loved fishing. I grew up fishing for trout.
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That suspension of disbelief that's required as an actor to live truthfully in imaginary circumstances is different to what needs to happen as a director, in the sense that you are the master of all the moving parts. You create the world in every detail.
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I receive underwear - some clean, some not. No joke. My assistant who helps me with my fan mail constantly threatens to quit because of what we get sent.
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I am a big fan of vampires. I've always been obsessed with the genre, and the beautiful romanticism and erotic kind of nature of the immortal being, the undead who lives on human blood.
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I like playing the villain.
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I'm not the best fly fisherman, but I can fly-fish, because I crack a whip. I learned to crack a whip as a boy... I have skills, mad skills.
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