[Updated: 03-JUL-11]
… Hawaii
[Daniel Dae Kim] showed me where all the good sushi was.— TCA Summer Press Tour, July 28, 2010
I love everything about Hawaii. I feel like I’ve relocated to the most beautiful part of the world.— TV Guide, August 2010
Hawaiians are like Australians, so it wasn’t that difficult for me. But I do miss my family.— Star, November 19, 2010
The sense of community here is really wonderful which is very much like in Australia and which I miss when I’m in Los Angeles. The people here are very much like my people. So it kind of feels like home.— The Philippine Star, November 21, 2010
Some people might ask me for autographs or to take pictures with them and it’s my pleasure to do that because the Hawaiian people are really cool. It’s the tourists who can be less cool.— Tribune Media Services, December 1, 2010
When I wake up, I make a cup of coffee and I look out the window – I view the surf report from there. I can see about five different breaks from my house, and each night I can see the sunset from my house. It’s an amazing place to live. It has just totally become my home since.— Jetstar Magazine, February 2011
I learned how to surf when I got here. It’s the most amazing scene here, almost life-changing. I’m trying to transition into a short boarder at the moment. Some people are telling me it’s a little early for that. So of course, yesterday, I fell.— Jetstar Magazine, February 2011
This place is one of the greatest on the planet, the people here are amazing. I’ve already made so many incredible friends that I’ll have for the rest of my life. I can’t really see myself leaving, regardless of what happens to the show.— GQ Style, March 2011
Most people on this island are watching the show. So everywhere I go, people know who I am. But the thing about it is that … it’s Hawaii. And Hawaiian people are rad. They’re a lot like Aussies, very grounded and laidback and really, really sweet.— GQ Style, March 2011
Sometimes I prefer to stay at the house, but for the most part, it’s part of the gig and [Hawaii] is probably the best place on earth to get used to it.— GQ Style, March 2011
You get to go to Hawaii once a week and see hot people in bikinis. It’s such a beautiful, special place, this island, and to be able to visit it once a week is something I think people will enjoy.— SuperAdrianMe.com, April 8, 2011
Because I have great respect for the Polynesian culture and I’m deeply grateful for the way Hawaii has opened its arms to all of us and just loved us into life here, and so I just want to do right by Hawaii.— CBS, Hawaii Undiscovered, February 2011
My favorite Hawaii moment is just waking up here every day.— HNN, April 2011
I love that, on the weekends, you wake up and you’re in Hawaii. It’s pretty amazing.— TV Week, June 4, 2011
Surfing is my great passion in Hawaii. I have a bunch of boards – all of which I ride badly.— Men’s Fitness, August 2011
I’m a homeowner here. I have a dog. I think that means more than having a wife or a child. Once you get a dog, where I come from, you’re not going anywhere. No matter what happens, I’ll always have a place here.— HIFF Panel, Oct. 16, 2011
… Hawaii Five-0
It’s the biggest pilot I’ve ever shot.— Hollywood News, March 31, 2010
It was a lengthy negotiation process. It was important to me that the integrity of the original show be maintained. I’m excited about the creative team behind the project, and I think it’s going to be a fresh and fun revamp of the show.— American Way, April 1, 2010
It’s interesting going back, looking at it now. The original show is pretty dated. We’re doing a much more contemporary show.— National Ledger, April 19, 2010
The Back-up Plan is my first lead in a movie in this country at this level and I guess it’s the first time in my career I went, ‘Wow, I’m here and I’m really doing it,’ so the decision to sign a seven-year contract for a TV show was very difficult, but I really liked this take on the original show and this character… so I have no regrets.— The Sydney Morning Herald, May 14, 2010
We were given these traditional leis and we had a high priest come in and do the ceremony and he had holy water and he said a bunch of prayers and it was beautiful. I feel so lucky to be a part of this, it’s incredible. It’s just amazing.— H50 Blessing Ceremony, July 15, 2010
I love Jack Lord’s McGarrett. I love Jack Lord’s hair. I love Jack Lord’s version. I think he started Blue Steel, the look that he does. He’s awesome. None of which I can get away with today in 2010 on television.— TCA Summer Press Tour, July 28, 2010
There’s something special about [Hawaii Five-0]. So I mean, if this one doesn’t go, I’m completely bewildered. I have no idea how television works at all.— TCA Summer Press Tour, July 28, 2010
You can blow lots and lots of stuff up!— CBS, July 28, 2010
I think [viewers] are going to be surprised at how thoroughly they enjoy the show on every level. I really do believe this show delivers character, crime and comedy in perfect balance.— Chicago Now Show Patrol, September 7, 2010
We have respect for what came before us, but we’re not drawing from the old show.— Associated Press, September 2010
We have a great stunt team and the boys do whatever we need them to do and whatever I can’t do or I am not insured to do. But there is still a lot of running around and heavy breathing for all of us.— Honolulu Star-Advertiser, September 19, 2010
That’s the thing about committing to a TV show – I know what I’m getting into. I knew I was going to be really busy.— Star, November 19, 2010
Television is very exhausting. You kind of forfeit your life to work in TV.— Honolulu Star-Advertiser, November 21, 2010
‘Hawaii Five-0′ now is much faster, much more aggressive.— The Philippine Star, November 21, 2010
Dude, they’re flip-flops.— ET Canada, September 2010
I think the show is perfectly cast.— ET Canada, September 2010
I love all of it, I love the comedy and the crime stuff’s fun. I like doing the action stuff, it’s good. I’m kind of a physical actor, so I get to do a lot of cool stuff on this show.— Hollywood 411, December 2010
What we’ve done with this show is innovative and exciting and fantastic. If Jack Lord were here I hope he’d feel the same way.— Hollywood 411, December 2010
If this one doesn’t work, I’m going to go away and look at films or go back to community theater.— Sioux City Journal, December 3, 2010
It’s a great pool of talents of like-minded people who have come together. There’s a great crime element, a great comedy element and a great character element.— Sioux City Journal, December 3, 2010
It was either a Jeep Cherokee, that exploded on me, or maybe a Gio Prism, the American equivalent of a Mitsubishi Colt. I think that exploded on me, too. To be honest, I’m surprised I’m still here: the vehicles I’ve had should have killed me by now. If those cars didn’t kill me, this show will.— Herald Sun, January 19, 2011
I’m up there, no helmet and just told to go for it. I was riding this [dirtbike] into the side of the mountain, raining sweat and giving it some. And halfway through it, I thought to ask, ‘If I die, will insurance cover this?’— Herald Sun, January 19, 2011
‘Hawaii Five-0′ is not an open and shut case.— The Age, January 27, 2010
The thought of being on a show for seven years is really scary to me because the most important thing to me is longevity of career and I think it’s true that you can get typecast in TV. But I think if we get to seven years, by that stage we will both be producers, we will be running the show, making obscene amounts of money, and we’ll be happy with the way things are going because we’d both have creative control.— The Sunday Telegraph, January 30, 2011
I said to [CBS], ‘Don’t pull the pin on this. I’m not going to do it if you’re going to pull the pin’. They were like, ‘We’re not going to pull the pin’, and I said, ‘Well show me’, and they did.— The Sunday Telegraph, January 30, 2011
Sometimes you think something is going to do really well and it doesn’t, or vice versa. But everywhere I go now people want to shake my hand. We can’t shoot the show without having security around.— Jetstar Magazine, February 2011
It’s a really big, ambitious television show and I’m in a lot of it. There’s a lot of action, and the three Cs: comedy, character and crime. For people who like crime-fighting and cop shows, it’s got that. The characters are really well-rounded, and there’s a lot of really funny stuff. I really think this is going to be a show that everyone will enjoy.— Jetstar Magazine, February 2011
This might turn out to be my biggest break so far. But I’m just taking it one day at a time.— Jetstar Magazine, February 2011
I love the ‘carguments’. If you take that away, the show would fall over.— USA Today, February 18, 2011
There’s a lot of fans of the old show and a lot of critics who are looking to get their teeth into us. And then there’s also a lot of fans and friends of Jack Lord – who played the original Steve McGarrett – and I’m an Australian. So I can’t think about any of that. All I can think about is doing my work, being true and honest within the character and trying to deliver on time.— GQ Style, March 2011
I literally didn’t know what to do. So I asked everybody in my life what they thought. I asked my friends, my family. ‘Do I do this? What do I do if this show isn’t a hit?’ And everyone was like, “Mate, you’re being a fucking idiot. Do this show. Do you have any idea how many actors wish they were in your position?’ I trusted the people around me and did it. And I’m really, really glad I did.— GQ Style, March 2011
I don’t think I have been on a such a well-balanced show before.— SuperAdrianMe.com, April 8, 2011
On a feature you’ll do maybe two or three pages a day. On TV we’ll do up to ten to twelve pages. The sheer volume of work can be so overwhelming.— SuperAdrianMe.com, April 8, 2011
I think the hardest thing in network TV is to maintain truth, to maintain integrity in the work and integrity in the characters and the easiest thing is to go to the classic network, ‘Yeah,’ the dishonest, easy approach and I just can’t live with myself to do that. I don’t want to do that. I would rather just do another job.— SuperAdrianMe.com, April 8, 2011
I work in combat boots and army pants all the time and I do a lot of stunts and a lot of action. A lot of it’s on beaches and soft sand under the hot sun. I mean there are a lot of physical challenges, it’s very physically demanding.— SuperAdrianMe.com, April 8, 2011
I said, ‘Look, the thing I don’t want to do is end up on a straight procedural. I don’t want to do that sort of TV.’ Because we’re saturated with it.— SuperAdrianMe.com, April 8, 2011
There’s a lot of character stuff coming up and so I’m excited about exploring that because as an actor, my job is character.— SuperAdrianMe.com, April 8, 2011
I was happy, I was really happy. I was really proud of myself, I was really proud of Peter, I was really proud of Scott and Grace and Daniel Dae Kim and everyone who’s been involved, all the writers and everyone who’s been involved in this, because it’s a struggle. Anyone who works on TV will tell you it’s so much work.— SuperAdrianMe.com, April 8, 2011
It feels fantastic. I’m very, very proud of this show.— Boston Herald, May 15, 2011
Having been the poster boy for two network shows that had essentially failed, if that were to happen a third time, I was really concerned about that.— Boston Herald, May 15, 2011
I want it to be a good show because I want to be associated with something good. I want it to be a good show because I want people to like what I’m doing.— Honolulu Star-Advertiser, May 15, 2011
I did think, ‘What if this one doesn’t work? Where does that leave me? Will I be able to get another job?’— Emmy, 2011
And I love the action stuff! I’m not a stuntman, but I’m athletic, and [as McGarrett] I like hanging people off buildings and tying them to the hoods of cars and then driving really fast.— Emmy, 2011
I’m damaged a bit. I’m going to come in like a bull at the top of Season 2.— Men’s Fitness, August 2011
I’ve only been back [to Australia] once since the show started. But my mum loves it.— HIFF Panel, Oct. 16, 2011
Sometimes you’ll want to get the whole script, and you’ll never get the whole script. [Getting the script] is helpful to me. The more info I have, the more opportunity I have.— HIFF Panel, Oct. 16, 2011
I had this one woman come up to me in Haleiwa and said, “Yo…it’s brah, not bro.” I said, “Ok, brah.” “No, not me, you idiot,” she said and walked away. I made it a point to learn quickly after that.— HIFF Panel, Oct. 16, 2011
… Steve McGarrett
Being accepted to the point and loved to the point by you guys that I’m allowed to step into someone like Jack Lord’s shoes to play a character like Steve McGarrett in Hawaii Five-0 is massive for me. It’s not lost on me the significance of that.— Hollywood News, March 31, 2010
That messy boy stuff is what I like most. There are definitely Jack Bauer elements to my Steve McGarrett. He’s not averse to methods others would be jailed for. I did a scene yesterday where I’m hanging a guy by his ankles 36 stories above Waikiki.— TV Guide, August 2010
[McGarrett] is part mercenary, and his tactics are pretty crazy. He does whatever he needs to do to get the job done.— Associated Press, September 2010
[McGarrett] is one of the most difficult characters I’ve ever played because I’m not allowed to be myself. I feel like this character is a bit rigid.— Star, November 19, 2010
I’m the first one to say please let [McGarrett] kill someone or do something naughty. Ultimately, what it comes down to for me is character. They’ve tried to take it away, and I’ve been like a baby with a rattle.— The Straits Times, November 20, 2010
It’s been challenging. More challenging than most of the characters I have played.— Honolulu Star-Advertiser, November 21, 2010
I think it’s becoming more and more fun for me to play. In the beginning you find your feet, you find your balance — how am I going to do this? But now it’s at a place where I am pretty clear on Steve and how he moves and what his pure objectives are.— Honolulu Star-Advertiser, November 21, 2010
My Steve McGarrett is rigid in the sense that he’s got a military background and, in the larger sense, because he’s the hero of the story and a hero can’t break parameters; he has to stay within certain heroic bounds. When you cross that line, you become something else.— The Philippine Star, November 21, 2010
I think exploring [McGarrett's] character is going to be as interesting as watching the crimes he and the team solve.— The Sun-Herald, January 30, 2011
The bottom line is Steve McGarrett doesn’t care what anyone thinks. But there’s something lovable about that, it doesn’t come from ego or self-importance, he has a mission and he’s following that through.— The Sun-Herald, January 30, 2011
He’s a lot of fun to play but he’s also a challenge because I’m very conscious of not having him become a two-dimensional character… it would be so easy to get stuck in that ‘All right, let’s go!’ kind of super-character thing and I have no interest in doing that.— The Sun-Herald, January 30, 2011
As an Aussie playing this hugely iconic American character, I feel truly honored. Thanks for trusting me!— InStyle, April 2011
There are 900,000 people on Oahu, and it feels like 895,000 of them watch the show. Everywhere I go it’s, “You play Steve McGarrett!”— InStyle, April 2011
He’s the hardest character I’ve ever played because he is so serious. Scott Caan’s Danno is much closer to who I am; Danno is always joking and breaking balls. But our two characters definitely have a banter – especially our ‘carguments.’— InStyle, April 2011
I didn’t think of the iconic nature of my role until much later after I’d got the job. I suddenly thought about the fact that lots of people really loved another actor playing this role and I was like, ‘Shit, I hope I can pull this off!’— Total Film, January 2011
When you read a piece, you either know what to do with the character right away or you don’t. And I just knew what I was going to do with McGarrett.— SuperAdrianMe.com, April 8, 2011
They sort of do have a bromance that comes and goes but they also complement each other perfectly in the sense that they can finish each other’s sentences, which means they can feel each other’s thoughts, which is kind of crucial in police work.— SuperAdrianMe.com, April 8, 2011
I want to play a conflicted character, and Steve McGarrett is becoming more and more conflicted and more and more complex as we go on. He is very, very driven, and the more I play this guy, the more I realize how driven he is.— Honolulu Star-Advertiser, May 15, 2011
This character is a cool cat. He’s got that Jason Bourne-Jack Bauer thing, where he has his own moral code.— Emmy, 2011
This character felt like he was more my style, more my speed. I really wanted to do it.— Hawaii Five-0 Season 1 DVD
Steve is a Captain America type, stoic, military trained. As opposed to Danny who’s loose and fast, a smart ass, [Scott] can have a lot of fun with that character. Not with McGarrett, he’s very by the book. I get to express who he is physically.— HIFF Panel, Oct. 16, 2011
… Scott Caan, Danny Williams
We will be the bromance of the decade!— E! Online, June 14, 2010
We both lucked out. We really bounce off each other, and as we get closer, we can just shoot each other a look, which adds a lot to our relationship on screen.— TV Guide, November 2010
The guts of the show is McGarrett and Danno, and we can always watch that. If you love two characters and what happens between them, that can develop into anything, forever.— Collider, September 19, 2010
I love the relationship between McGarrett and Danno, and I love what we’ve both done with the characters.— Collider, September 19, 2010
Scotty’s been to the hospital a couple of times, the poor bugger. I’ve been OK so far, I’ve just used Scott as a shield.— Herald Sun, January 19, 2011
We have a ‘bromantic’ banter. We hit it off from the start, thank God, because we spend so much time together and it’s fun.— The Sun-Herald, January 30, 2011
He’s the hardest character I’ve ever played because he is so serious. Scott Caan’s Danno is much closer to who I am; Danno is always joking and breaking balls. But our two characters definitely have a banter – especially our ‘carguments.’— InStyle, April 2011
Scott is sharp, quick, keeps me on my toes, and lives right around the corner from me in Hawaii. And he’s been a big part of getting me into surfing. But when you spend 15 hours a day together shooting, you’re not wiping your make-up off, going, ‘I’ll meet you at your house, mate!’— InStyle, April 2011
Scott and I were actually born just a few hours apart. So I think there has to be something in our horoscopes.— Total Film, January 2011
They sort of do have a bromance that comes and goes but they also complement each other perfectly in the sense that they can finish each other’s sentences, which means they can feel each other’s thoughts, which is kind of crucial in police work.— SuperAdrianMe.com, April 8, 2011
[Scott] was born here in the United States on the 23rd at night, and I was born in Australia on the 24th in the morning, so we’re actually born a couple of hours apart!— TV Week, June 4, 2011
Scotty is a machine. I’ll never be as good as him. And I’ll never match his jiu-jitsu, either. But if we’re in a ring together – fists and stand-up fighting – I’d lick him standing up.— Men’s Fitness, August 2011
We talk a lot of about stunts but the bromance is what really stood out in the pilot script. The first cargument that we had… it’s so natural, we just enjoyed each other. We sort of go for it as actors, it’s safe to go for each other’s throats, ’cause when they call “Cut”, it’s all good. I like my bromance.
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