Alex O'Loughlin Quotes

I feel like interviews are the only time I actually analyze my own work.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

I have strengths, and I have weaknesses. I don't pretend to be able to write a great thesis or doctorate - I have no pretensions in that direction.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

I have considered myself a mature actor.

I have not changed with the accomplishments. I've remained the same. If I had changed, great. You know, but I haven't.

I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.

It doesn't matter to me if I'm in love with my performance, so I watch all of my performances to understand and learn from them and figure out what's working and what's not. And I see the movies that I'm in in the theater a lot.

I'm not good at watching myself.

The last thing I think I am is perfect. I'm just trying to do the best job I can. I'm trying to be the best father I can to my kids. I'm trying to do the best job I can running my business.

I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twenty-five, and I just kind of started to look into that direction and moved into it.

Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?

If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?

I'm having a great career, though I think I'm not as good as your little scenario makes me out to be.

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

Don't get me wrong: I'm overjoyed with my career to date. But perhaps I could have done more. Mostly, I just did whatever the directors told me to do.

I had some moments in my career where I'd walk on the court, and I look around and feel, 'Oh, I'm the best one out here.' But then you go on another court, and you could be the worst player out there.

I do not take to the field to defend myself from certain criticisms. If I do, in this kind of career, it is because I'm very self-critical.

I don't see myself as a world-class player.

Of course I am doing a good job, but you can always improve, and I just leave it up to people outside, around me or whatever, to judge on that.

I want to work as hard as I can and continue to make a career for myself.

I was very ambitious as a young actor, but I wasn't good at being ambitious.

I think there are still better players than me.

From my position, obviously I want to maximise my potential and go as far as I can go and as high as I can go, but I'm not chasing fame. I get enough of that.

The most common mistake you'll make is forgetting to keep your own scorecard. Very little at work reinforces your ability to do this, so you will have to be vigilant. When evaluators give you an assessment, they are just guessing at who you are; they certainly are not the ones who know your potential. They can rate you and influence you, but they don't get to define you. That's your most honorable assignment: to define, every day through the way you deliver your work, the scope and nature of your inherent abilities.