I'm at the beginning of it. I'm Elektra's last job before the story kicks off. Jason Isaacs More Quotes by Jason Isaacs More Quotes From Jason Isaacs 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 simplejobskids Every time I make a plan, God laughs at me. Jason Isaacs planslaughing In the moment of acting you don't feel like anything, you feel like the person, as much as you can. Jason Isaacs actingmomentsfeels 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 realreadingjobs 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 virtuousplaying-someonethinking 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 lastswingsyears I think I was probably always a liar; I just get paid for it now. Jason Isaacs paidliarsthinking 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 lazyorderfacts Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition. Jason Isaacs narcissistichungeracting 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 actorshatewant I damaged my Achilles tendon, so I can't run. Jason Isaacs achillesi-canrunning 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 who-i-ammeanpeople 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. Jason Isaacs fightingmorninglying I went to university and I was a bit out of my depth, socially. Jason Isaacs universitybitsdepth 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 togetherjobschildren I am not a sex symbol. Jason Isaacs sex-symbolsymbolssex 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 donepeoplethinking It seems a bit weird to call someone your girlfriend when you have a child. Jason Isaacs girlfriendseemschildren 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 sittingbookchildren 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 strongrealcharacter
