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.

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• Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I'm interested in seeking projects no matter where, no matter if it is in the United States, whether in Chile, whether in Venezuela.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Matter
  • United States
  • Where

• Barbour is a brand that I have grown up with and been associated with since I was living near the borders of Scotland.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Living
  • Brand

• A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Stand
  • Cricket
  • Nose

• When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Men
  • Live

• People were saying, 'He's worth £32m? He tried a back-heel and fell over!' Even I laughed. In my head, I said, 'OK, you've seen the bad side, now come see the good side'.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• It is good, it is better to be voted by the players - they know everything about football.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Football
  • Better

• We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Diseases
  • Avarice
  • Fickle

• Fighting crime requires a partnership between the police and the community. And we all know that this partnership has been tested in Chicago. It is a problem that has festered in this city for decades.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Community
  • City
  • Fighting

• I have a lot of respect for Eminem and Rihanna. They are both very real in their music.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Music
  • Real
  • Respect

• I think the three Mexican directors that came before me did a very good job in Hollywood because they came in and started directing things like 'Harry Potter.'

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Good
  • Job
  • Think

• Two of my sons are themselves filmmakers, and we can't afford them nor they us. They work in the real world and earn money and are pretty good at it.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• Personally, I was never the cool kid. I was always sort of a bookworm.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Cool
  • Never
  • Kid

• I went through a really dorky phase.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Through
  • Phase
  • Dorky

• Bleachers comes from a different place. It's personal. It's just me putting myself out there as myself. It's very intense.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Different
  • Place
  • Personal

• By exercise. I'll tell you one thing, you don't always have to be on the go. I sit around a lot, I read a lot, and I do watch television. But I also work out for two hours every day of my life, even when I'm on the road.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Life
  • Work
  • Day

• Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Funny
  • Become
  • Less

• As a child, I was subjected to a lot of spaghetti Westerns and hated them. I wanted the Indians to win - or just not be so sad!

  

  Kara Walker
  • Child
  • Sad
  • Win

• A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

• Dismissing socialization and gender roles as piddling compared to this amorphous idea of 'maternal imperative' is part of the reason progress is stalled for family-friendly policies.

  

  Jessica Valenti
  • Family
  • Progress

• I was really relieved not to have to drag something in front of the camera; I could use a pencil and paper. A regular pencil and typing paper. That appealed to me.

  

  William Wegman
  • Paper
  • Cameras
  • Pencils

• If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • People
  • Doubt
  • Police

• I learned everything the hard way - like, literally, everything. I know that God does that to people that he has lessons for. I just wish that I had learned less extreme lessons.

  

  SZA
  • People
  • God
  • Wish

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

  

  Jason Isaacs