Words matter. These are the best Jason Clarke Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My favorite part of any project is the preparation. It’s where you get to meet the people, the experts.
My father was a sheep shearer, so I grew up in a caravan; we’d go around from shearing shed to shearing shed. My mother always wanted us to be educated, so I went to a school.
My favorite part of the film business is the research part, with the access we get from people who are excited to be involved and the things we get to see and do, which we’re not normally going to get in everyday life.
I do want to have holidays and see my family and friends.
I haven’t gotten jobs because I’m famous or I have a big Twitter feed – it’s primarily directors. People employ me because I’m right for the part. But then, everybody needs a bit of luck, being in the right place at the right time. You just gotta be in that place for that opportunity to come by.
As an actor, the first thing you learn in drama school is you never judge.
At the end of the day, I’m an actor. I’m not here to sell other stuff or use off-screen things to generate whether or not I work. If I’m any good, I’ll work; if I’m not, I won’t.
I’m not against anybody – everyone does what they need to do.
I was particularly happy to do a potential franchise where I was not putting on a mask or a pair of tights.
Europeans have it better than the Americans. The Americans work too hard. The balance is out of whack. Europe’s hung onto a little bit more of living a life and then working as well.
I can’t complain about the roles that have come my way.
I can remember very clearly sitting in a little room in my apartment going, ‘You know what, Jace? I think it’s time to go back to university.’
A lot of my climbing and hiking gear is all wool because I can wear it for a week straight and it doesn’t smell. And when you get hot and sweaty in a cold temperature, it stays warm.
Anytime you’re in fear for your life, it’s intense.
My career has worked out exactly how I like, and I am just happy to go to a coffee shop and nobody knows me, or when they do, they are complimenting me on the work they have seen, and it feels very genuine.
The Spanish love their paella, and they love their jamon. And they love their football.
The guy I read and I love is Irvin Yalom.
I’m an actor doing a job, but I’m also living a life.
I believe it’s worth observing terrible things people have done as clearly and rationally as we can to show that our monsters are not caricatures.
I think it’s very important to allow people into Ted Kennedy. Thousands of people lined the streets the day of his funeral.
The whole business of being an actor is to explore, from research to shooting to why you do it. You’re trying to see why people do what they do and how it feels to do what they do.
In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it’s really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.
I love a good wool suit, and I appreciate the fact that it’s a natural fiber. I know where it comes from, and I know how it’s bred. And it’s built to last. It breathes, and it feels good.
I like working, and I like the freedom where all that matters is my work.
Your voice is important – it gives away everything about you. The mouth is a muscle you have to work like you’d work at the gym.
