Jason Isaacs Quotes

Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.

Jason Isaacs

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• I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Women
  • Love
  • Dress

• No matter how frustrated, disappointed and discouraged we may feel in the face of our failures, it's only temporary. And the faster you can stop wallowing in guilt, blame or resentment, the faster you can put it behind you.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • May
  • Stop
  • Face

• Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Experience
  • Road
  • Acceptance

• What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.

  

  Zendaya
  • Done
  • She
  • Think

• She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Support
  • Mom
  • Kid

• My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • World
  • Real
  • Job

• I don't think, by the way, that any network would have given us their show to release all 13 episodes once ahead of them, and the same way, I don't think any studio will give us their movies to release the same day they are in the theaters - not yet, not yet.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Think
  • Day
  • Movies

• I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Music
  • Knowledge
  • Jazz

• When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being delayed in that departure can be particularly frustrating.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Time
  • Yourself
  • Partner

• But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Question
  • Nothing
  • India

• England and Denmark have a sense of irony and a darker sense of humour that you don't necessarily find in Germany and Sweden.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • You
  • Find
  • Irony

• I'm so bored of all these girls who have written about 20 books by the time they're 25.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Time
  • Books
  • Bored

• I am a Gemini and can adapt to most atmospheres. You get two for the price of one when you are a Gemini.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Adapt
  • Gemini
  • Atmospheres

• I always say when it comes to dream matches, that is not up to me: that's up to the WWE Universe. That's up to the fans. But there is a guy on 'SmackDown' that I have yet to wrestle yet that's certainly gonna happen at some point, and that's Randy Orton.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Dream

• All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I don't think any of them is necessary, but they all play an incredibly important role in building a body of literature, in introducing new authors to new readers, and extending reading.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Reading

• As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Game
  • Myself
  • Professional

• Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Work
  • Single
  • Look

• Perhaps the most encouraging trend is that, through technology, people are realizing how much agency they actually have. Technology has revolutionized the way we eat, live, communicate, socialize, learn, and do. We see enormous potential to create lasting, positive change in the way the world works by doing what we are doing.

  

  Jeremy Heimans
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• Crowns in my purse I have, and goods at home, And so am come abroad to see the world.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Home
  • Travel

• In many parts of the world, women and girls are especially vulnerable to HIV/AIDS because they lack control over most aspects of their life. Cultural expectations and gender roles expose women and girls to violence, sexual exploitation and far greater risk for infection.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Life
  • World
  • Women

• I skate for the fans. It's not as fun without them there supporting me. I get energy from them and I want to skate well for them. They relax me. They make me happy when I skate for them. I feel the Americans like me more and more each time I tour.

  

  Evgeni Plushenko
  • Fun
  • Energy
  • Feels

• One out of every four of us will need a United Way Agency and some in the next year, ... It doesn't matter what your income, your age, or your circumstances.

  

  Jack Miller
  • Age
  • Circumstances
  • Income

• Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.

  

  Jason Isaacs