Below you will find various quotes by Alex from his interviews. More will be added when more interviews are discovered. Please give credit to Alex O’Loughlin Fan.com if posting elsewhere. Enjoy!

 Personal

“Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying. I am a very private person. I have my life and I have my family, which mean the world to me.”

“I didn’t feel that engaged with the world as a kid. I wasn’t the fastest learner. I didn’t feel like I fit.”

“I found it difficult to adjust to LA life. But I’ve got a great life here now … and I’m working which makes a big difference.”

“It’s been such a long road for me. I’ve worked every day for this. The last 12-13 years has been a constant battle…I don’t take it for granted.”

“I get up in the morning and my hair is all hanging in my face and poking up on one side, I need to shave and I look older than I am. When I stagger into the kitchen to get my breakfast, I don’t think, “Oh, look at that handsome guy. Look at that talented special creature.”

“I wear a lot of hats, like I wear a lot. I always have a lot of hats, and I really love hats. Like, I have floppy ones, I have, kind of, broad, full brimmed, I have baseball caps. I just like hats. I’m a hat guy.”

“I hate gyms. I run in the canyons. I run in the mountains. I like running outside and I have some equipment at home that I use but I like using nature.”

“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.”

“My family is extremely supportive. They are very forward-thinking, good parents. They’re great. I think most parents have preconceived, unrealistic hopes for their children but, children are people and they’ll find what they want to do.”

“A lot of my friends have been to battle in Somalia and the Gulf War. They have been to different parts of the world. They go in trained in one specific area, and they come out knowing a whole lot more. You experience a bunch of other stuff, because of the nature of what is going on.”

“There are a few cats around town that I am buddies with. I can chat with them. I borrow cats. I will borrow my buddy’s cat. The best cat is your friend’s cat.”

“It’s nice having your work recognized, but having people follow you around is kinda weird.”

“As a kid, the head of my bed was underneath a really big window. You could see the stars really clearly. I would lay on my back and look up at the stars. From the moment I sort of learned the concept of infinity, and I could grasp it, I struggled with it. The stars used to keep me awake at night. So much so, I had trouble getting up to go to school the next day. I would be doing head miles about this thing called infinity. How it never stops. What do you mean it doesn’t have an end? Even if it doesn’t have an ending, what is after that? The immortality became entwined in my brain. This idea that you could go on forever. That everything would be dead except for you. I’ve always been fascinated by that as well.”

“I think really if there’s nothing out there in the dark, then once we’re dead we’re just dead and all religion, all spiritual belief, is redundant. So there has to be something else, or what’s the point? And if we accept that there has to be something … then there can be anything.”

“Apparently, according to the rest of the world and several big newspapers back where I’m from, I’m the son of the late Bon Scott, the late singer of AC/DC.  I was shocked. And then I was thrilled. I rock. But then my mom called me and she was very upset. Publicly, you know, labeled a groupie and therefore a hussy and a harlot, which isn’t true at all. My mom is a very wonderful woman and very respectable. And so I suppose it’s probably a good time to say since he’s passed on and he can’t speak the truth, I should speak for Bon and say that I’m pretty sure he’s not my dad.”

“My father is a teacher in Sydney. He teaches physics and astronomy at a private boys’ school in Sydney. We have a great thing that we do today, you know, now that I’m all grown up, and I can read by myself. We have a book club thing. Of course, it’s still on CD. So we kind of refer books to each other, and we read them and then we chat about it which is terrific.”

“My parents divorced when I was two. From the age of 10, I went back and forth between the cities.”

“Mum’s a musician. She plays piano and has a beautiful voice, so she understands the creative need. Mum lights up when she sees me. Her cheeks go pink – she’s all over me, pulling my hair, pinching my cheeks.”

Acting

“Fame, for all intense and purposes, is not something that I aspire to. I certainly aspire to art. That is why I am involved in this craft. I love doing what I’m doing and I’m so grateful to be working.”

“I’m an actor – there’s nothing glamorous about acting until you get to the f… you money and then it all turns to shit anyway.”

“I was in a school play when I was 10 and had fish fingers up my nose and I was wearing these spectacles and making the audience laugh. I remember the rush and knew I loved it.”

“There was a whole year, in 2005, when I wasn’t getting anywhere. I had to sell my stereo and a few other things. I got my motorbike stolen, it was miserable. I was sleeping on a mate’s office floor questioning my talent – that was really difficult.”

“I love the Australian industry but it’s a boutique industry – the US is where it is. If I want to buy a house, I’d have to stay in Australia making movies for a hundred years.”

“The screen test for James Bond was a real ‘pinch yourself’ moment I’ll never forget.”

“I am seeing a lot more of myself in pictures. I think this has created an exposure I have needed to forward my career.”

“Quite frankly, I couldn’t survive as an actor … I was sick of waiting tables and pouring beers, digging holes on building sites.”

“There is nothing intimate about a sex scene at all. You have got 30 people standing around and there is a camera between your legs and there are lights and make-up girls looking at your bum to make sure you haven’t got too much shine. If I never did another one, that would be just fine.”

“I am getting sent for the leading men’s roles but I am just doing my best because there are so many leading men out there.”

“I realized that every time I’d gone to the movies, I’d walk away with this awful feeling. I don’t know if it was envy or yearning, but I worked out that I was watching people do what I wanted to do.”

“When I was 18 or 19, I was showing off, one day, in front of a group of my friends. A good friend of mine pulled me aside and said, “You know, you’re an actor, and if you don’t do anything about it, you should be ashamed of yourself.” When I thought about it, I realized that he was right. I’d spent my life, to date, walking out of cinemas and theatres, and away from performances, feeling a strange, nostalgic, empty, sick feeling, and I could never explain it to the people I was with. It was this thing that isolated me from people. And then, it all just clicked into place. And so, from that moment, I pursued it and I haven’t looked back.”

“The first year I was here I was auditioning all the time and got no work. I had no money and a piece of s— car and in the end I had to hock things like my stereo to get by. I was just doing anything to scrape by, working on a building site for $15 an hour. There were times I was thinking, ‘What am I doing, this is crazy’. I was scared because I had no money and no ticket home. That is the time when everyone else packs up and leaves. But I remembered everything my grandfather taught me about the work ethic before he died. He was brought up out in the bush and his advice was ‘put your head down and keep working, son, and you’ll get what’s coming to you’. You just push through.”

“I’ve got to tell you, man, it’s (success) not always about having great talent. Great talent does not always equate to success. 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. It’s a right-place-at-the-right-time kind of business, but it’s also about perseverance.”

“As an actor, you have to get over yourself … so you don’t judge the characters you play or the scenarios you find yourself in. I’m forever finding my mouth on men’s necks or wrists, and yes, it is bizarre, but I am used to it.”

“I act because I enjoy telling stories and so that people want to come with me on that journey, you know, is real exciting to me, so I look forward to providing my fan base which is growing, as much exciting new stories in the future as I can.”

“As an artist, you spend a lot of your life maybe not working and training, reading and really trying to further yourself. And the reality is a lot of us never really get to make a living at it. So it brings me great joy to be in demand. It’s a lovely feeling. I’ve worked hard for a long time to be able to choose what I want to do … It’s a lovely feeling.”

“There’s other actors that the world doesn’t know about that I’ve grown up with, that I’ve seen on stage, that have breathed life into performances that have changed my life. They’re some of my best friends, so that’s as influential to me as those big stars that we all see in movies.”

“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 love working with kids, I’ve never not enjoyed it. But then again maybe I’ve never had a bad kid. The thing about working with children is that there are no walls there, no barriers between you and their vanity. When you’re working with adults, we all have vanity, narcissism, whatever we have that has to do with our ego can potentially get in the way of our work. With kids there is a purity and an innocence regardless of what character they’re playing within them. And so to tap into that is just extraordinary to work with because it’s so true.”

“Once you’ve done a couple of films, I think the whole idea of being a movie star — well I don’t know about the ’star’ thing — but the idea of working regularly in feature films that’s my dream. To go from one character to the next and get to tell a million different stories, that would be wonderful, I’d love to be able to do that.”

“I love playing different roles, the more variety the better. Once I’ve played a role I don’t want to play it again.”

“I didn’t go to leading man school. I went to drama school. I don’t want to play the same role, every role I get.”

“I personally think that you make your own character decisions. And sometimes that stuff never makes it into the final cut of the show.”

Oyster Farmer

“The film moves at the pace of life on the Hawkesbury River. It is an honest to life, romantic comedy. It is a fantastic actors piece.”

“When I looked around the set at the amazing actors I was working with – Jack Thompson, Kerry Armstrong, Jim Norton, David Field – it sometimes didn’t feel quite real. I feel very fortunate to have had the experience, every moment I listened intently and watched what they were doing. I had so much to learn and they were all so willing to teach….I felt blessed.”

“The script looks at what it is like to be a man in this society. Jack is an Aussie bloke, he’s a little bit ostentatious, a little bit obnoxious, a little bit cheeky, but he’s sensitive as well. Jack is really a city kid who ends up in the scrub for the first time in his life and, unexpectedly, finds a community and love.”

August Rush

“I lived in New York with Jonathan Rhys Meyers while making the movie August Rush — in which I play a Dubliner — and it was helpful that Jonathan is Irish. I kept that accent for four months.”

The Shield

“This will probably be the thing that gets me recognized. It’s a big deal. The role was highly coveted over here and I’m really happy. I auditioned two weeks ago, they called me back the next day and I just finished the first of seven episodes.”

“There was a sex scene in The Shield where I was nude – I was fully naked on a chair! There is nothing fun about doing a scene like that. I have had to do a couple of them in my career and it is like — it’s just weird and sort of icky.”

 Moonlight

“Our show is only vampires. We don’t deal with other monsters like trolls and goblins and stuff. We’re not based in some medieval book of curses; we’re set in contemporary times. And our vampires, they walk among us, live among us, work among us. They’re lawyers and doctors…. We’re trying to bring it into the here and now. The other thing is, I don’t think I’ve seen a vampire series done in a film-noir style, not just in the way it’s shot but in the use of devices we have, like flashbacks and voiceovers.”

“When I read the character, the first quality that I really related to was his humor. He has quite a dark humor. I’m not as dark as he is in humor but I see the lighter side of things. I see the comedy in life so that sort of was my entrance point to this role.”

“When you are the lead of a one-hour drama, it is the hardest you will ever work. But it is not only a one-hour drama, it is effects-heavy, make-up-heavy, and I am doing my own stunts. But I love it, I find it very invigorating.”

“The longest I’ve done is 21 hours on set. Every day is a long day. I think we average 16-17 hours. Life on set is all about the show.”

“He is also a lot tougher than I am and a lot brighter than I am –  he’s like a new-age superhero.”

“What I like about Mick is he is a victim of circumstance. He was made into a vampire against his own will. He’s someone who always tries to do the right thing. But he’s also flawed. I think he’s a character we will all relate to at some stage, because he’s a heart-centred character.”

“What is it about creatures that consume human blood to exist? And why is it if there was no truth behind the myth, that so many cultures all over the world as far back as we can trace, have stories about it? There’s such a mysterious, sensual element. I think we live vicariously through vampires.”

“I actually really enjoyed Buffy and Angel. (But) we have a very different show, catered to a slightly different audience.”

“As an actor I approach this character, as a guy who just happens to be a vampire. He just happens to have this curse that he didn’t want and didn’t ask for and now it just so happens he has to live off of human blood. Other than that; he’s just a normal guy.”

“I prefer the vampire genre moreso than any other supernatural thing. It’s the king of supernatural. Vampires are raaaad.”

“I have always loved vampires (and) I came in with a significant knowledge of the genre. And I think if you are going to be a vampire, 30 is the peak of a man’s age.”

“With the genre itself, I have always been really enamored by its shameless sensuality. It is unlike any other genre. And this genre has had tremendous success, especially with the way these types of characters live. You get to see how deeply these vampires feel about the world sensorial. Their senses are all heightened. If you compared them to an animal, it would have to be a cat, on a lot of levels. The touch, the smell. They are so sensitive, especially when they transform and morph. I’ve always loved that.”

“I’ve been kind of obsessed with the genre since I first discovered it. I discovered Anne Rice when I was sort of late teens. And I read the first five or six books of “The Vampire Chronicles.” I loved her character development. I learned so much about her, like about the mythology of vampires.”

“I grew up with American TV and American cinema because we didn’t really have that much of our own.  And so I grew up with all of the films that you guys did. “Lost Boys” was a huge film for me when that was made. And “The Hunger” was also something that I really loved. So, yeah, I have always sort of wanted to play a vampire.”

“If he gets excited, for better or worse, he can vamp out a little bit. Sometimes he has to. If you do have vampires about you in this modern day amongst you, amongst us all, and they’re going through transformation publicly, they kind of have to keep it contained and that makes another layer of vulnerability for this guy.”

“Because of his special abilities, because he has subhuman powers, he’s able to take on cases that perhaps other people wouldn’t. He’s able to pursue cases that may be unpursuable. Is that a word?”

“Mick St. John essentially is a human who denies the monster within. He became a vampire against his will and then became a private investigator because he feels that each predator he gets rid of, each monster he kills or has put away gets him closer to the humanity within himself that he has lost.”

“He’s a very complex character to play because really he hates what he is and hates himself, and that’s put him right on the edge.”

“What saving [Beth] signifies to him was so enormous and now that she’s come of age and he’s starting to find himself attracted to her … oh man … he wants her to call him Dad and he wants her to call him Baby … it’s all messed up. But that allows for some really dramatic twists and changes in the character that you just wouldn’t see anywhere else.”

“A big thing that comes up for me with this show and with this world is redemption. At what point can we no longer be redeemed? And Mick’s hoping the answer is never.”

“The reason Mick became a PI in the first place is because he feels on a deep level that the more predators he gets rid of and the more crimes against humanity he solves, the further away he’ll get from the predator he actually is. Even though he would never admit it, and he never shows it, he is a true victim of circumstance.”

“Part of what makes Mick unique is his ability to turn off his emotions and deal with what he has to deal with. There was so much blood. The urge to do what comes naturally to him can be subdued. That desire to drink the blood was right at the surface the whole time. So, he is no stranger to blood or body parts. He can control his natural instincts.”

“I don’t think Mick is very good at being a vampire. I think he’s kind of shitty at it. And so reluctant, so nostalgic. Whereas Josef is like, “Dude, this is awesome. Let’s bite some chicks. And spend some money.”

“To me the unrequited love aspect of this show and the Romeo and Juliet mirror that we provide is an essential part of the drama and the tension. In Mick’s mind there is no way he could ever cross that line despite the flesh being weak and despite the depth of feeling that he has for this woman. In his mind that would be the ultimate sin. It’s awkward because he looks at her through paternal eyes, but he also wants to sleep with her, so that’s pretty weird.”

“The minute he and Beth actually get together and consummate their love, it becomes a different story. At this moment, we still have the Romeo and Juliet thing going on. When this show was pitched to me, they said it was about a vampire P.I. I said, “Really?” I didn’t think it would be good. But then I read it, and it is about so much more than that. It deals with epic ideas and themes. I think it has elements of Hamlet, it has elements of Romeo and Juliet. I think it has elements of a lot of big stories that have already been told. When we get together, that element will no longer be there. It won’t be unrequited love anymore. That will push us in a different direction.”

“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. Just the thought of eternity and us experiencing it, and the fear that brings up in my heart when I think of it.”

“I’ve always been enamored with the shameless sensuality within the genre, unlike any other genre. And, also, the shameless excess to which these creatures live, and how deeply vampires feel, sensoraly. Their senses are heightened. If you were to compare a vampire to an animal, I would think it would probably be a cat, on a lot of levels, with the touch and smell. They’re so sensitive, especially when they morph. I’ve always loved that.”

“Lola says ‘Remember darling, half the world is night.’ (Episode: B.C.) I love it! I write it on some photos when people ask for autographs. I love it!”

“It tastes like a gauva and pomegranate. If you drink too much, you get a really bad stomachache and it makes you fart. A farty vampire. It’s an interesting set.”

“I really feel like I’m participating in life when I’m strapped into a harness and hanging precariously over the ground.”

“I do have a stunt double because there are certain things they won’t let me do. They won’t set fire to me and they won’t let me jump off a building. There are some stunts that it’s impossible to get insurance to let me do. For the most part, I do about 75% of my stuff. I have my own harnesses and pads and I’m trained in stunt work so I love it. The other thing is they don’t have to shoot around a stunt double, they can just shoot me and it makes the show better.”

“The stunts are fantastic. We do a lot of our own stunts. I do a lot of my own stunts, [and], um, you know there is more nudity than I have seen on network TV for a while. There are all sorts of things and everything is quite hard-hitting and cutting edge for CBS, I have to say.”

“Sophia and I spend a lot of time together and we’re great mates. She’s really fantastic to work with. I’m Australian and she’s British, and we have similar sensibilities and a similar sense of humor. We grew up with the same TV. We have a lot in common. She’s easy to get along with, which makes a big difference, when you’ve got to spend 18 hours a day with somebody.”

“I think it’s a really satisfying show. We own the demographic, and we own the demographic for a reason and that is that people of all ages are enjoying the show. Teenagers to people in their middle ages of life are sitting down watching Moonlight because it’s got so many elements that we turn to. It’s a love story. It’s a story about unrequited love. It’s got incredible action and great fight sequences. It’s got a tormented conflicted protagonist who always goes towards good, well for now, and whose rules are ambiguous and his motives, at times, are ambiguous, and it’s based in a genre that’s really exciting, that’s mysterious, that’s really sexy.”

“When you do a pilot and they fire everyone but you, you learn to not have any expectations, whatsoever, because surprises are inevitable.”

“I think it is a show that took a minute to find its legs, but once we found our legs, our numbers were consistent and we won some awards. We were doing really well and then they canceled it.”

“This writers’ strike has us stitched up. But I’ve done my job and hopefully it’s good enough to get another series. Hopefully these writers will come out of this strike sooner rather than later and we can all continue working.”

“The other day I was in Pittsburgh shooting [the CBS pilot Three Rivers], when this girl comes running up to me. Before I could finish ascertaining what I thought was going to happen, she pounced through the air, like a tiger, and landed on my chest with her arms around my neck and her legs around my waist. After I got her off and thanked her for the hug, she demanded to know when Moonlight was coming back.”

“I look back at it with a broken heart for the most part. I put every part of me into that show. I was fighting for it from every angle and I was there from the very beginning. It feels to me that ‘Moonlight’s’ disappearing out of my grasp. It’s sad, but I’m so glad to have been a part of it.”

Criminal Minds

“The thing that I love about this episode is that we find a very disturbed character — a guy whose life is run by obsession and by compulsion, and he can’t stop this pattern of killing. But he wants salvation. He finds a child, and the child represents perhaps the last bit of innocence within himself. This is what I drew from the character when I first read the script, and I hope that’s what we see when the show plays.”

“I’m playing a villain, kind of. He’s a very flawed human being, but there is redemption as far as I’m concerned.”

“As I’m moving into this leading-man phase of my career, you don’t even get to read roles like this very much and you don’t get offered guest-star parts like this. I’m an actor – I didn’t go to leading-man school, I went to acting school.”

Three Rivers

“They offered me the role, and I was like, “Can I at least audition as an Australian?” “G’day! Do you need a new heart?”

“It’s set in Pittsburgh, where the Monongahela, Allegheny, and Ohio rivers meet, and it’s told from three perspectives – the organ donor, the organ recipient, and the surgical team. That of course means that in every episode, someone dies and someone potentially lives, so it’s always very high-stakes. The show is really well-written and smart and sensitive. It’s a beautiful little hour of TV.”

“It’s a well-written piece that I foresee a longevity with that I didn’t with the other pilots that I read. I see three years ahead, you know what I mean? I see the fifth season. I see where the characters are going to go, the potential. I loved the character. I’ve sat in on five open-heart surgeries now. I realized how important a story like this was before I did that stuff, but the deeper I’ve gone into it, the more mesmerized I am.”

“I plead with my Moonlight fans to give this show a chance if they let me give it a chance. I can’t do Moonlight again — it’s finished. The bottom line is that my true fans will follow me where I go.”

His Fans

“They’re very consistent in their passion, which is lovely, I love them for it, so much. I hope they follow me into my career, and my next project. I mean, every character is not going to be Mick St. John. It’s just not. I’m always going to play different characters and hopefully they will find. I think my fans, because they’re so, comprehensive, with their study of me, and their research of me, I think that they’re probably starting to get to know me a bit now, as well, and if they’re still my fans, it means they still like me. If they still like me, hopefully they’re going to like what I like in the characters that I choose.”

“Hopefully, they’re going to come to love the characters that I love, the way I love them for the same reasons, or similar reasons. I want to take them all with me, I want to take them on this journey and show them what I’m learning and what I’m loving, and they’re great people, too. My fans are so caring, they send me so many well wishes, and lovely cards. Beautiful paintings. It’s amazing, I’ve never experienced it before. It can be a little overwhelming, I’m just like anyone else. Can you imagine, like opening the mail, and getting 1,000 letters? It can be really weird, really bizarre.”

What Others Say…

“Finding the right actor to play the leading man was surprisingly difficult…I guess because a lot of guys like the one I was looking for don’t choose to become actors, they don’t go to drama school, so ultimately they don’t get to audition for you. But Australia is full of them – you go down to the beach and there’s all these gorgeous young men who could play Jack Flange but they probably couldn’t act their way out of a paper bag. I had to find an actor who was convincing as a man Oyster Farmers would give a job to, he had to look like he’d done hard physical work. But I knew I would recognise the qualities when I found the right actor…….and Alex walked in. He was so keen and I knew he would have the courage to play the role and give it his all.” – “Oyster Farmer” writer/director Anna Reeves

“He’s a bundle of energy. And he’s funny–he makes me laugh all night long. With our schedule, 16 hours a day, six days a week, I couldn’t have hoped for anyone more wonderful to work with.” – “Moonlight” co-star Sophia Myles

“My friend Sarah Carter introduced us two years ago and we started dating – he’s lovely, he’s just a really good man. We moved in with each other pretty quickly but it’s working and we’re doing really well. He’s Aussie, too, which is great as we share common cultural backgrounds and senses of humor – we can reminisce together. I still get really nervous, say, if I haven’t seen him in a couple of days, or if I have to pick him up from the airport, then I’ll be planning my outfit the night before. We both come from divorced parents so we both have a different idea of marriage – I wouldn’t want to mess it up. Maybe when we’re a bit older it’s something we’d consider, but at the moment we both think, ‘If it ain’t broke…’” – Actress Holly Valance

“I met him at a girlfriend’s house when he was helping her repairing things. I saw this gorgeous Aussie with his top off in the sunshine, hammering nails into a fence. Then every time I went to my friend’s house Alex would come by. I think my friend was matchmaking and it worked. We live together and I am a lucky girl. He is a big romantic.” – Actress Holly Valance

“I hear Kiss Kiss and it grates. Alex walks around the house doing the dance moves and I’m like, honey, that’s so not cute right now.” – Actress Holly Valance

“Oh, Alex… Alex sets all the girls into a twitter. Various departments were vying for Alex’s attention. We just finished that this past Saturday morning, at 5:30 am. Prentiss had no moments with Alex! [Laughs] He’s a cutie-pie!” – Actress Paget Brewster

“A lot of times you do a pilot … and you know if the pieces aren’t working. And I think they knew right away they had a star in Alex and they just rebuilt around him.” - ”Moonlight” co-star Brian White

“We had a meeting before they hired him to make sure that there was a certain kind of chemistry, that we hit it off, and that we could see each other in the characters and stuff like that. I was definitely part of the process of, you know, picking him. I just think that he really was so… I don’t wanna say the wrong word, but he was very confident. He was very confident, and I think we needed that. We needed somebody for this character Zoe, who is, you know, went to Harvard, and worked at, you know, Google, and then has her own business. Now she’s very self-sufficient and doesn’t really need anybody. So, the person has to be somebody who she wants, so badly. You know, that has to be somebody that she respects and who can stand up to her. And I think when I met Alex in the room, I felt like he could be good to go kinda “toe to toe” with me. He’s awesome. He’s, you know, good-looking, and tall, and sweet, and charming. He’s very leading man material. You know so, he’s perfect, he was perfect for the role and we’ve been having a great time doing it together. I know both of us are going to be very sad when the movie’s over because we’ve had the best time together.” - “The Back-Up Plan” co-star Jennifer Lopez

“Alex is massive at the moment. You only have to go online to see that there’s a million fans out there. Alex is a classic Aussie leading man – smart, sexy and extremely talented.” - Richard Clune (The Sunday Telegraph)

“Alex had a holding deal for CBS and I was under contract to CBS. He met with lots of people, we met with lots of people. He want to do [Three Rivers] and we wanted to have him. I wasn’t at all nervous [about casting him]. I felt very lucky that they steered him our way and second of all that he wanted to do it.  He’s a really fine actor and he’s so dedicated and he’s a really nice guy and . . . okay. . .he’s cute. He’s a great lead. I feel very lucky, usually there’s a nightmare quotient to a person like that and it’s just not there with him.” - ”Three Rivers” executive producer Carol Barbee

“Alex was a real find, such a natural, charismatic actor. A good portion of his dialogue was ad-libbed.” - Whiteout” director Donimic Sena

“Gabriel, Alex and Columbus were, and I were just this extremely tight group on the set because it was quite difficult. It was quite grueling, and we did get beaten up every day. And you really want to feel that you’ve got people around you who you can have a good laugh with and have your back. And I just got so lucky. I got the best boys ever. And we’ve really stayed… I mean, Columbus and I’ve been on a holiday with our families together and had Christmas together and… So they’re really, they’re very strong relationships, and they’re all really silly and funny.” – “Whiteout” co-star Kate Beckinsale