ALEX O'LOUGHLIN

I like playing the villain.

It is such a cut throat industry where you get knocked down so much and get rejected so much. If you do not back yourself up, no one else is going to so you really need to learn to get up, shake the sand off your chest and keep going.

I don't know what I'm really good at. I'm really good at sittin' by the pool. I have to work at that. I'm really bad at auditioning.

I do not think I'm a great talent. I think I'm a medium talent, but I think I understand the business and enjoy the business.

I write music just for me. I'm certainly not good enough to do it on any kind of a level but I enjoy that time because it's quiet.

My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog.

I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.

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.

The mecca of filmmaking in the world just so happens to be in America. It's quite simply a case of us just going where the work is.

I really enjoy doing charity, for a good cause, it's like the least I can do, I really enjoy that stuff. I enjoy giving back.

Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying.

It's nice having your work recognized but having people follow you around is kinda weird.

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.

Surfing and trail running chill me out. I like reading, too. And playing my guitar - I wish I were better.

When I talk about character work, I don't really feel like i do much as an actor when I look at other great actors who win big awards for doing incredible transformations.

I live in Hawaii, and the trails and mountains here are just magic.

I blew one of my knees. I've torn ligaments and tendons, ankles, both shoulders, both wrists.

I've knocked my front teeth out. I've got fake front teeth.

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.

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.

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.

I think if I'd have been an actor who didn't care, I'd have less gray hair, and I'd be a lot less tired.

There have been many times when I thought I was having a logical discussion with a woman, and then I'm left sitting alone, confused, trying to recount how it went down.

I've got really fantastic fans from all over the world.

Surfing is my great passion in Hawaii.