Jason Isaacs Quotes

It's an acting job - acting natural.

The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

Doing comedy and romance is easy, if I compare it with playing the role of a real-life person.

Acting was just something that came really naturally to me, and it was just something that I knew how to do.

It's not easy, acting.

Normally, if you play a part, you have the words, and you invent the personality out of your experience, your knowledge - your life, in a way.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

I'm an actor, and I love the art of creating a character.

Acting takes so much energy.

An actor has to embody a role.

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.

As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.

An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.

I'm not used to being asked what I want to talk about. That's why I'm an actress. Get told what to do, stand on the mark, say your words, wear this, look this way, look that way.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

Acting has always been my passion.

I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.

As an actor, you know there are things you get asked to do that you do quite well, with less effort.

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.

There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.

It is so fantastic being an actress because you have the chance to be a thousand different people when you act.

We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp.

Acting is very start and stop.