Jason Isaacs Quotes

When I started acting, I thought everything should be issue-based and that there should be a helpline at the end of every program.

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?

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

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.

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

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!