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Jason Isaacs Biography

Jason Isaacs (born 6 June 1963) is an English actor and voice actor. He is known for playing Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter film series, Colonel William Tavington in The Patriot, and criminal Michael Caffee in the Showtime series Brotherhood. In December 2016, he played "Hap" Percy in the Netflix supernatural series The OA. He currently plays Captain Gabriel Lorca, the commanding officer of the USS Discovery in Star Trek: Discovery and provides the voice of The Inquisitor, Sentinel, in Star Wars Rebels, the animated television series.

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

Acting, Hunger, Narcissistic

I am not a sex symbol.

Sex, Sex Symbol, Symbol, Symbols

God, I hate interviews with actors pouncing on. Who wants to know about their lives? I don't want to know about Al Pacino's life.

Actors, Hate, Lives, Pouncing, Want

In the moment of acting you don't feel like anything, you feel like the person, as much as you can.

Acting, Feels, Moment, Moments, Person

It's just really, really beautiful. Each scene is one long 15 minute take without cutting. My scene is with Robin Wright-Penn so I'm pretty excited about that.

Beautiful, Cutting, Long, Robin, Scene

I went to university and I was a bit out of my depth, socially.

Bits, Depth, Socially, University

The weird job of acting is that it is so simple. You just see the person in the situation. It is whatever you have to do to get there. Some people want to stay up all night or cut their toe off. For me it is a bunch of reading, and hanging out with real people, I do that. You never know what you are going to get. It might be the shoes people wear.

Hanging, Job, Jobs, People, Reading, Real

I think this show I'm going to do,' Awake,' if it's done well, will not only be provocative and entertaining, but help people. I want to do that.

Done, Entertaining, People, Provocative, Thinking

I could release myself into acting in a way that I was not released socially.

Acting, Release, Released, Way

It seems a bit weird to call someone your girlfriend when you have a child.

Call, Child, Children, Girlfriend, Seems, Weird

In fact my favourite thing is the wig because I'm a very lazy actor so every time I put it on, in order to keep it straight, they kept on telling me to tip my head back because otherwise I was eating it all the time.

Fact, Keep, Kept, Lazy, Order, Wigs

I damaged my Achilles tendon, so I can't run.

Achilles, Damaged, I Can, Run, Running, Tendon

I would love to tell you I've found the secret to eternal youth. I go to the gym and avoid too many chips. I love to eat, hate to work out, but if you can't count all your ribs from a distance you're considered obese.

Considered, Distance, Eternal, Hate, Ribs, Work Out

I'm at the beginning of it. I'm Elektra's last job before the story kicks off.

Beginning, Job, Jobs, Lasts, Stories, Story

I'm still spending my working life trying to mine people's souls and now they're complimenting me in reviews on the amount of time I spend in the gym. On the definition of my triceps.

Definition, People, Reviews, Soul, Spend, Trying

I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of "The West Wing. " We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it.

Know, Lasts, Season, Shot, Wings, Years

I went off and read the books after the audition and I read all four books in one sitting - you know - didn't wash, didn't eat, drove around with them on the steering wheel like a lunatic. I suddenly understood why my friends, who I'd thought where slightly backward, had been so addicted to these children's books. They're like crack.

Book, Children, Cracks, Friends, Slightly, Wheel

I got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Taylor Lautner. I really wanted to lie down and eat Chinese food, but I kick-boxed every morning and ran. If someone was filming you with your kit off, you'd do the same thing.

Fighting, Kit, Lying, Morning, Prepare, Thing