John Barrowman
John Barrowman
John Scot Barrowman, MBE, is a Scottish-American actor, singer, dancer, presenter and writer who holds both British and American citizenship. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he emigrated to the United States with his family in 1975. Encouraged by his high school teachers, Barrowman studied performing arts at the United States International University in San Diego before landing the role of Billy Crocker in Cole Porter's Anything Goes at London's West End...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth11 March 1967
CountryUnited States of America
Love is love, no matter who you fall in love with, love is love, it can be painful, it can be wonderful.
In everything I do, I find some of myself, or a lot of myself, and put it into the role.
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.
When I go to Florida for Christmas I always take my nieces and nephews out on excursions, ... I become like a big kid again. We go on all the big rides at the theme parks or I stick them in go-karts where their feet can't quite reach the pedals. I think that if you can continue to have the child at heart you may grow old physically but you will stay young mentally.
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.
I was the one who taught my sister and my niece how to walk in high heels.
I don't call myself an actor, I call myself an entertainer, because I don't just do one thing.
Desperate Housewives' was a good experience, though, as I got to play the bad guy for once. My only complaint was they had me in a lot of sweaters.
I've always said in my career and in my life I only do things I'm interested in.
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.
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.
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.
Fit men walking around and bathing, it would be just like being in Ancient Rome [on a footballers dressing room
I trust the [series] writers when I'm filming, because it's interesting for me to go in every week and see what's going to happen, and the challenge for me as the actor is to make it work.