Jason Isaacs - biography

Biography

Jason Isaacs is best-known for the following films:

Peter Pan (2003)

Jason Isaacs Quotes

“Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“There is nothing nicer than playing someone who is cooler, tougher, more virtuous and sexier than yourself and thinking, ‘I can be anyone.’”

“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.”

“I am not a sex symbol.”

“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.”

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

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