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
Terry O'Quinn quotes about
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 think that you only occasionally have to play evil because everything you're doing is.
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.
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.
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.
Really, I think of fame as distracting; it's something you have to get around.
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 don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration, anger, shame, helplessness and a load of other emotions that make up our psycho-soup. I try to focus on that frustration, that sense of unfairness, and multiply it.
I have done a few roles that I've never watched, and if I happen to be flicking through channels and one pops up, I quickly move on. It's hard enough to sustain some self confidence without being reminded of things we'd rather not revisit but, in the end, it comes with the territory.
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.