Jason Isaacs quotes

Jason Isaacs is an English actor, widely recognized for his versatile roles in film and television. His performances include memorable characters such as Lucius Malfoy in the "Harry Potter" series and Captain Gabriel Lorca in "Star Trek: Discovery." He is celebrated for his dynamic screen presence and ability to portray both heroes and villains. Here are 22 of his quotes:

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. (Jason Isaacs)

I think I was probably always a liar; I just get paid for it now.

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I went to university and I was a bit out of my depth, socially.

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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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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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Every time I make a plan, God laughs at me.

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I could release myself into acting in a way that I was not released socially.

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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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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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I am not a sex symbol.

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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. (Jason Isaacs)

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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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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It seems a bit weird to call someone your girlfriend when you have a child.

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I damaged my Achilles tendon, so I can't run.

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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. And I can go anywhere. No one knows who I am.

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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.

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I'm at the beginning of it. I'm Elektra's last job before the story kicks off.

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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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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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In the moment of acting you don't feel like anything, you feel like the person, as much as you can. (Jason Isaacs)

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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Occupation: English Actor
Born: June 6, 1963
Quotes count: 22