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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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• 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.

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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.

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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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• 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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• 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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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 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 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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Jason Isaacs (25)

Birth:	6th June, 1963
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor

About

Jason Isaacs was born in Liverpool, England. He is an English actor. He studied law at Bristol University from 1982–85. His role in several films include: The Tall Guy, Shopping, Dragonheart, Armageddon, Soldier, Sweet November, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Passionada, The Tuxedo, Peter Pan, Friends with Money, Green Zone, Abduction, A Single Shot, Fury, London Fields, and A Cure for Wellness. His role in television include: Capital City(TV series), The Fix(TV film), The State Within(TV serial, Nominated- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor -Miniseries or Television Film), Brotherhood(TV series), Case Histories(TV series, Won- Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television), Awake(TV series), and Dig(TV series).

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