Quotes from John Barrowman

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.

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

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

Fit men walking around and bathing, it would be just like being in Ancient Rome [on a footballers dressing room

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.

I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.

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.

Wherever I am, I will embrace the life and the lifestyle. I've lived in Hollywood before, and we've moved into the old neighbourhood in West Hollywood. I love California.

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.

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.

I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.

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

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.

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

Love is love, no matter who you fall in love with, love is love, it can be painful, it can be wonderful.

Have I ever been the shy retiring type? Never. Not since the day I was born.

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.

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.

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.

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.'

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

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

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

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