Terry O'Quinn
Terry O'Quinn
Terrance Quinn, known professionally as Terry O'Quinn, is an American character actor, most famous for playing John Locke on the TV series Lost. O'Quinn became known for playing the title role in The Stepfather and Stepfather II and was cast in 1996 as Peter Watts in Millennium, which ran for three seasons...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth15 July 1952
CitySault Ste. Marie, MI
CountryUnited States of America
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 spend a lot of time in Los Angeles, but I probably wouldn't say it's my favorite city.
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.
I'll watch golf while I work out. I'm your average golf fan.
When I find a golf course or a restaurant or a market that I like, that's pretty much exclusively where I go.
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 have two concerns with my work: having good things to act, and getting paid. In that order. Although if you're not getting paid well, that order can change. But that's what I'm concerned about. Good scenes. Decent money.
I'm not sure it's possible to stay in Hawaii. It's kind of impractical.
I so rarely turned down a role, that I can't say I have any regrets in that regard. There were many roles that I would rather not have done, but having a home and family requires that we sometimes do things we would rather not.
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 can relate to somebody wanting to have something to believe in.
Really, I think of fame as distracting; it's something you have to get around.
Yeah, I like working in television, a lot. I really enjoyed my time on 'Lost.' I like developing that hint of family with people. I mean, if you're on a happy set. If you're on a set where there's some sour apples, then I don't like working in television.