Jason Clarke Quotes

I'm very grateful and fully aware that 90 percent of actors are not working. Going from public school teacher to a show like 'Grey's Anatomy', I love what I do.

I recognize how lucky I am as an actor. I've been working as an actor since I was 9 years old.

Like many actors, I'm very grateful, I feel very fortunate, very lucky to be able to make a living with what I do and what I love. I'm surprised and grateful all the time.

I have to say, I feel really lucky. I've had a lot of great characters to play.

I wouldn't say that I haven't got my fair share of good roles. This industry has been very kind to me.

There's so many things I want to accomplish in the world of acting. But, the two most important are that I want to keep paying the bills and I want to get better. That's about it. I enjoy what I do. I'll stay busy. I've been lucky.

I'm really grateful for how my career has unfolded.

You know, I always say this - As an actor, we're lucky to get a job. Then we're lucky that anybody gives a damn to watch the thing that we're in.

There are so many talented young actors in the industry. I'm just happy to have a job!

I'm an actor. If you had said to me before I started acting that I'd get two bites of the cherry - you would do things that people will remember forever like 'The Brothers' which I did in the '70s and now 'Doctor Who' - I'd have been overjoyed and I still am.

I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part.

I'm lucky to just be a working actor. There are so many great actors out there and I'm just lucky to have gotten work.

I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.

I really love being in 'Game of Thrones,' but I don't know if it's my big break.

I feel immensely blessed - not just that I'm working, but that I'm working on projects that I really care about and like. I've always been that way.

I've been blessed to get the kind of films I have done.

I feel that God has been amazingly kind to me. How many actors get to stay for 30 years and play the kind of roles that I have done?

I am as curious about my daughter's acting debut as the rest of the world. I think Alia has got the best possible debut under the biggest banner. But it's not going to be easy for her to go from the first to the second film smoothly.

Most actors are very grateful for what is as opposed to what will be. You spend 98% of your time looking for a job, so when you get it, it's fantastic.

I would never have changed anything in the past. I have been acting for 32 years now and I feel so lucky to be able to have done exactly what I wanted to do.

Who could have asked for anything better? I was cast in movies with great actors, with great leading men.

To get asked to do stuff like 'United States Of Tara' and 'Caprica' is terrific. I can't complain.

I used to beg for auditions. Now, they're being thrown at me.

I suppose the biggest thing I learned is that I'm in it for the right reasons. I love my job as much now as when I first began. I still feel fully invested in every audition, every job - large or small, every appearance, every meeting with every fan.

But I'm thrilled to be employed, and to work with all my friends and people that I admire. You're just lucky to work - that's the bottom line.