Top 36 Jason Isaacs Quotes
#1. I think I was probably always a liar; I just get paid for it now.
Jason Isaacs
#2. I can't tell you too much about it because I'm not even meant to tell you that I'm in it. In fact, I might never work again now that I've been talking to you. I'm not in it for very long, let's put it that way.
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#3. Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.
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#4. I get some of the nicest fan mail you could imagine. Also when I'm up for an award, my fans all vote online and then they'll boast to each other about how many thousands of times they've clicked my name. Their thumbs must be bleeding!
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#5. As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
Jack London
#6. I'm at the beginning of it. I'm Elektra's last job before the story kicks off.
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#7. It seems a bit weird to call someone your girlfriend when you have a child.
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#8. I don't go out - ever. I'm lucky enough to have awesome friends, and we always end up at someone's house. We're big house-party guys.
John Krasinski
#9. When I started acting, I thought everything should be issue-based and that there should be a helpline at the end of every program.
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#10. Acting is a really simple job - it's just hard to do. You just have to be that person with their background in that situation. That's all it is. My kids do it all the time when they're dressing up and playing games.
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#11. I could release myself into acting in a way that I was not released socially.
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#12. Every time I make a plan, God laughs at me.
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#13. When I came back from filming 'Abduction', I told my agent: I'm staying in London now. If it takes doing children's theater from the back of a van in Kilburn, that's OK. I need to be with my family. My job is to keep the family together and provide for them.
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#14. Look," Liam said, "sometimes being a hero isn't about getting the glory. It's about doing what needs to be done.
Christopher Healy
#16. My staff would probably tell you that I don't want to leave events very quickly, and they're always pushing me to get me out the door.
Ron Barber
#17. In fact my favourite thing is the wig because I'm a very lazy actor so every time I put it on, in order to keep it straight, they kept on telling me to tip my head back because otherwise I was eating it all the time.
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#18. Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish mess. Can't I for once play that on stage?
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#19. In the moment of acting you don't feel like anything, you feel like the person, as much as you can.
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#20. I went to university and I was a bit out of my depth, socially.
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#21. God, I hate interviews with actors pouncing on. Who wants to know about their lives? I don't want to know about Al Pacino's life.
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#22. I got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Taylor Lautner. I really wanted to lie down and eat Chinese food, but I kick-boxed every morning and ran. If someone was filming you with your kit off, you'd do the same thing.
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#23. In civilized society external advantages make us more respected. A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one. You may analyze this and say, What is there in it? But that will avail you nothing, for it is a part of a general system.
Samuel Johnson
#24. I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of 'The West Wing.' We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it.
Jason Isaacs
#25. Well, he's not going to get any nicer. He's a genocidal racist maniac. He's one of these people who thinks the world was a great place when Voldemort ruled the world. He's particularly offended by mixed-blood Mudbloods, the product of wizards and humans. So I hope he goes into therapy.
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#26. Some directors have just one way of working; you either have to adhere to it or you don't.
Bradley Cooper
#27. I think this show I'm going to do,' Awake,' if it's done well, will not only be provocative and entertaining, but help people. I want to do that.
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#28. A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#29. I damaged my Achilles tendon, so I can't run.
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#30. I've seen firsthand the terrible consequences of drug abuse. My heart is with all who suffer from addiction and the terrible consequences for their families.
Columba Bush
#31. I'm still spending my working life trying to mine people's souls and now they're complimenting me in reviews on the amount of time I spend in the gym. On the definition of my triceps.
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#32. I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
Jack Whitehall
#33. There is nothing nicer than playing someone who is cooler, tougher, more virtuous and sexier than yourself and thinking, 'I can be anyone.'
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#34. I would love to tell you I've found the secret to eternal youth. I go to the gym and avoid too many chips. I love to eat, hate to work out, but if you can't count all your ribs from a distance you're considered obese.
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#35. It's just really, really beautiful. Each scene is one long 15 minute take without cutting. My scene is with Robin Wright-Penn so I'm pretty excited about that.
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#36. I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives.
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