Jason Isaacs 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

  Jobs, Kids, Simple

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

  Jason Isaacs

  Laughing, Plans

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Jason Isaacs

  Liars, Thinking, Paid

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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

  Acting, Moments, Feels

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

  Jason Isaacs

  Acting, Way, Release

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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!

  Jason Isaacs

  Awards, Names, Fans

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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.

  Jason Isaacs

  Jobs, Children, Together

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• I went off and read the books after the audition and I read all four books in one sitting - you know - didn't wash, didn't eat, drove around with them on the steering wheel like a lunatic. I suddenly understood why my friends, who I'd thought where slightly backward, had been so addicted to these children's books. They're like crack.

  Jason Isaacs

  Children, Book, Sitting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Jason Isaacs

  Jobs, Lasts, Stories

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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.

  Jason Isaacs

  Thinking, Playing Someone, Virtuous

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• I am not a sex symbol.

  Jason Isaacs

  Sex, Symbols, Sex Symbol

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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.

  Jason Isaacs

  Years, Wings, Lasts

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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

  Thinking, People, Done

  "Jason Isaacs: 'I like being anonymous'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2011.

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• 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.

  Jason Isaacs

  Order, Lazy, Facts

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• 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.

  Jason Isaacs

  Hate, Distance, Work Out

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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.

  Jason Isaacs

  Acting, Narcissistic, Hunger

  "Jason Isaacs: 'I like being anonymous'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2011.

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• The weird job of acting is that it is so simple. You just see the person in the situation. It is whatever you have to do to get there. Some people want to stay up all night or cut their toe off. For me it is a bunch of reading, and hanging out with real people, I do that. You never know what you are going to get. It might be the shoes people wear.

  Jason Isaacs

  Jobs, Real, Reading

  Source: www.iamrogue.com

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

  Jason Isaacs

  Girlfriend, Children, Seems

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

  Jason Isaacs

  Depth, University, Bits

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

  Jason Isaacs

  Running, Achilles, I Can

  "Jason Isaacs: 'I like being anonymous'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2011.

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• 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.

  Jason Isaacs

  Hate, Actors, Want

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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.

  Jason Isaacs

  Mean, Who I Am, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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?

  Jason Isaacs

  Strong, Real, Character

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Jason Isaacs

  People, Soul, Trying

  "Jason Isaacs: 'I like being anonymous'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2011.

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• 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.

  Jason Isaacs

  Beautiful, Cutting, Long

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