Top 25 Jason OMara Quotes

I became an American citizen three years ago, and if I’d been arrested, maybe that wouldn’t have happened. That was a very proud moment, by the way. I still have my Irish passport, but becoming an American citizen was important in terms of my family.

Being Irish, I grew up eating a Sunday roast.

A sense of humor saves your life, and being able to make friends wherever you go.

When I was on ‘Terra Nova’, I had an Australian iPhone and a U.S. iPhone, different time zones, just a couple differences in the machines, but I was able to keep the international aspect of things in order. But I lost my U.S. iPhone right before I left Australia. Somebody’s got it somewhere out there. Send it back?

The Australian Outback can be quite unforgiving.

I definitely read a lot of Marvel stuff when I was a kid.

Sometimes the things that scare me are the things I’m drawn to: moving to London, L.A., New York; marrying, having a kid. In order to live a full life, sometimes you have to do things that scare you.

I’ve been doing stuff for ABC for a long time, since 2004. I’ve had several deals with them. Like, ‘Life on Mars,’ that was a large event for me in my career.

That’s the challenging thing with TV; it’s not the action scenes per se, and it’s not the location scenes and the heavy dialog scenes, but the fact that there is just no let-up; there is no break.

It’s nice to have a kind of Batman that isn’t the ‘I work alone. I’m darkness. I am the night’ kind of thing.

My wife makes the best chocolate chip pancakes, and my son and I are only too happy to stay home and eat them.

Technically, the green screen acting can be difficult because there’s something worse than a tennis ball on the end of a stick; it’s an Australian visual effects assistant running around a field with a cardboard dinosaur head on the end of a stick while wearing sandals.

I turned up my nose at yoga for years. I was a rugby player growing up. But now I know. When I’m on those long international flights, like 22 hours from L.A. to Sydney, I’ll get up sometimes and do yoga in the aisle just to stretch out a little bit.

The really good doctors out there are real-life heroes. Playing one on TV is a cheaper alternative and certainly satisfies what is left of my medical ambitions.

I don’t think Batman should spend a whole movie yapping, you know? He should choose his words carefully and speak low.

It’s kind of appropriate to me that Batman is still a part of the ‘Justice League Dark’ story. I think it would be strange if any of the other ‘Justice League’ characters were involved in putting together this kind of motley crew of dead people and mediums and ghosts and demons and phantoms.

People tell you not to work with children and animals, and I chose to work with a 7-year-old and several dinosaurs!

When I was 16, it was 1988, and my style was a mess. Fur-lined brown suede jacket, paisley shirt, chinos, and Doc Martens. My hair was blow dried into a large quiff. That might sound vaguely cool. It wasn’t.

I put on about 20 pounds to play Washington, and that was really enjoyable. That’s probably the most fun I’ve had preparing for a role. There were only two weeks between ‘Sons of Liberty’ wrapping and ‘Complications’ starting, so I had, basically, two weeks to drop 20 pounds, and that was the opposite of fun.

I’m attracted to things that are different than the average run-of-the-mill stuff.

I’ve spent three hours hanging upside down while fighting off dinosaur attacks. That was a lot of fun.

The future is kind of a bleak place.

I think it’s refreshing to have a character-driven ‘Batman’ story that isn’t just about action and getting out of scrapes.

I’ve never thought of myself as just an actor.

I just watched the entire season of ‘Louie’ in one flight. What an amazing show.