Matthew Fox Fun Facts, Quotes and Tweets
15th October 2015
Quote: "I had a great six years on that show, but that story wrapped up." Actor Matthew Fox will never consider any project linked to his cult TV drama Lost, which ended in 2010.
18th October 2012
Quote: "I eat differently now. I enjoy foods I never enjoyed in the past and I definitely work out differently. I run longer, I circuit train in the gym, but I'm more efficient." Actor Matthew Fox on how his training to get into shape as sinewy serial killer Picasso in new thriller Alex Cross has given him a new outlook on health and fitness.
18th October 2012
Fact: Simon Waterson, the hardcore fitness instructor who trained Matthew Fox for his role as serial killer Picasso in new thriller Alex Cross, also worked with Daniel Craig on his cut James Bond look and Chris Evans on his hulking Captain America physique.
17th October 2012
Quote: "If I believed in reincarnation, I would absolutely, without a doubt, come back as a golden eagle." Actor Matthew Fox on life after death.
28th April 2011
Quote: "It's a really good time to be in London. There's a lot of excitement about what's happening on Friday. I'll be on stage that night - we're doing a performance on the day of the royal wedding. We might only have a couple (of) people out there." Matthew Fox fears the theatre will be empty when he performs in London's West End on the same day Britain's Prince William weds. The actor is currently performing in the Neil LaBute drama In a Forest, Dark and Deep.
28th February 2011
Quote: "We did a lot of crazy stuff. I'm the middle of three boys, that's who we hung out with, we didn't have friends over. We were really into fire. I grew up on a ranch... dynamite was always around." Actor Matthew Fox grew up loving explosives.
24th May 2010
Fact: The cast of Lost, including Matthew Fox, TERRY O'QUINN, Naveen Andrews, YUNJIN KIM and Emilie De Ravin, reunited for one last time on Sunday (23May10) for a special episode of TV talk show JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE!, which aired in the U.S. straight after the hit programme's highly anticipated series finale.
12th April 2010
Quote: "My kids don't watch Lost. It's a little too hardcore. I think my daughter at some point in a few years will probably get a kick out of watching the box set with her girlfriends." Matthew Fox doesn't let his kids watch his desert island drama.
12th April 2010
Quote: "I will say goodbye to some members of the cast privately, in my own way, without the crowds looking on. It will be very tough to say goodbye to everybody, but, at the same time, it's going to be incredible." Actor Matthew Fox admits the end of Lost will be emotional.
9th April 2010
Quote: "I have absolutely no trouble taking my clothes off... It's fun to do something others think is outrageous." Lost star Matthew Fox likes to get naked.
1st February 2010
Quote: "Women find any man on the TV sexy. You can't take it seriously. If a guy goes on television then there are women out there who will find them attractive. I don't buy into the sex-symbol thing. It's a compliment but that's it. I'm not interested. I'm a married man." Lost actor Matthew Fox isn't impressed by his legions of female fans.
1st February 2010
Quote: "I drink and smoke to excess at times. I can't help it. It's part of who I am. The wildness never quite goes. What I've discovered is to have periods of drinking and smoking (and) the periods of total abstinence. I wish I could stop smoking. I'd like to give up but I'm an addict." Matthew Fox can't shake off the vices he picked up as a rebellious teen.
20th June 2009
Quote: "I know what the final image of the show is. I'm not going to tell you. I'd be thrown into some van with dudes in white jackets and taken away and injected with some s**t." Lost star Matthew Fox is frightened of giving away the series finale of the desert island drama.
24th May 2009
Quote: "It's like if you had two (brothers) and had to decide which one of them you'd like to (have sex with)." Lost star Evangeline Lilly hates discussions about which one of her co-stars she'll romance on the show - Josh Holloway or Matthew Fox.
14th January 2009
Quote: "This show started with a plane crash on an island in the South Pacific, and it’s going to have a very global and epic ending." Matthew Fox is very happy about the upcoming ending to TV show Lost.
11th May 2008
Quote: "Anytime you're talking about playing a guy who's a masked vigilante wrapped in leather there's a lot of ways that can go terribly wrong. I went and looked at some movies where that did go terribly wrong." Matthew Fox on playing RACER X in new action film SPEED RACER.
22nd April 2008
Quote: "I walk in and they both turned and went, 'Daddy?' And my little boy turned to my wife and said, 'I wanna be RACER X at Halloween next year.'" Lost star Matthew Fox stunned his kids when they visited him on the set of new blockbuster SPEED RACER, in which he plays the mysterious Racer X.
7th March 2008
Quote: "Gratuitous nudity I would shy away from. But if it was necessary for the story, then absolutely." Lost star Matthew Fox lets his female fans know that he isn't averse to doing tasteful nude scenes.
14th February 2008
Quote: "On a scale of one to 10 for romance, I'm probably a three." Lost star Matthew Fox isn't a big fan of Valentine's Day.
13th May 2007
Quote: "I'd imbibed so much that I threw up in the water and ended up swimming in my own vomit." Lost star Matthew Fox regrets having to shoot a swimming scene after a night of heavy drinking.
9th January 2007
Quote: "I don't take my clothes off all the time because I think I have a huge unit and want to show it off. I do it because it's frickin' funny!" Lost star Matthew Fox defends his much-publicised fondness for skinny-dipping.
8th January 2007
Fact: Lost star Matthew Fox's farming parents grew barley for brewing company Coors.
30th November 2006
Fact: Lost star Matthew Fox was a member of the Columbia University college American football team which ended a record 44-game losing streak with a win over Princeton in 1988. The actor scored a 40-yard touchdown in the game, which was cancelled because he accidentally ran out of bounds as he charged up the field.
28th November 2006
Fact: Tyra Banks, Samuel L Jackson, Tenacious D and US TV stars Patrick Dempsey and Matthew Fox appeared in a new ad for sports channel ESPN's MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL last night (27NOV06).
9th March 2006
Quote: "I don't do anything on the Internet when it comes to my own name because I'm afraid of what'll pop up." LOST star Matthew Fox on looking himself up on the web.
6th October 2005
Quote: <p>"I'm actually a little surprised that much has been made of it. I mean I'm just under the impression that when you go swimming in very warm climates at night with friends, you go naked, don't you?" LOST star Matthew Fox again explains his penchant for skinny-dipping. </p>
1st September 2005
Fact: <p>LOST star Matthew Fox has a pilot's license for gliders and sailplanes. </p>
30th August 2005
Quote: <p>"Sex is an energising event for me, not a depleting one. I feel like getting up and running around." LOST star Matthew Fox has loads of enthusiasm. </p>
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