Jason Isaacs Quotes
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When a man interrupts a woman in mid-sentence, it reveals much about him. First, it shows he hasn't been listening to what she is saying, and secondly, it indicates that he doesn't want to listen to what she will say. Her views are not important.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.
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Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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One thing I really want to do is - I spent ten years in New York doing theater before I moved to L.A. to do TV and film. I'd really like to go to back New York and do some theater.
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The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
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I like to get a salad or fruit in me - just some good energy food - and then a plate a pasta with a breast of chicken.
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Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
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I always believed in my characters. I lived them.
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When my grandchildren are older and my great-grandchildren start growing up, first of all, I want them to be in Israel. I don't want them to leave the country because they have no choice.
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Some hedge fund managers have made big bucks trading oil futures - George Soros is one.
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An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
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I denied this for many, many years and years... but you cannot help but not see a little of my mother in the character of Edna.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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As she swam she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself.
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People change, but there really are limits. One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life. We are children for a very long time.
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You think there's a rule book, in a way, until you realize there's absolutely no rule book, and you can use a red carpet to express something about yourself. There are so many wonderful designers in the world, and they create such wonderful things. Why go with something uninteresting?
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I'm not really a Method actor. I'm always afraid of working with someone who's afraid to [break character] and won't talk to anyone because they're in character.
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One April afternoon, right after lunch, my husband announced that he wanted to leave me.
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I went to university and I was a bit out of my depth, socially.
