Top 30 Ashley Zukerman Quotes

I just felt like I was mining Dan Brown’s work.

I read something recently about authorities using facial recognition in cities to track people simply walking around. That’s kind of unsettling.

I had to read up on the Freemasons, about secret societies, and dip my toe into art history.

I don’t have a dogma that gives me a compass, that occupies me.

In recent years it’s become really apparent, the division between what government is and what communities want.

I had my first for real American person recognize me and come up to talk to me. They’d seen The Code’ on Netflix – it was amazing.

The first television show I did was a production called ‘The Pacific,’ which was this huge HBO series with an insane budget and 300 extras and a crew of 150. We were filming out in the middle of the wilderness in my hometown. I was so green. I didn’t understand anything that was happening.

It’s amazing what these computers we carry around in our pockets can do. And if anyone wants to, they can know what we’re doing.

I’ve been working with smart people who are the best at what they do and who fight to make the best-quality stuff. I’m very fortunate that these people have seen whatever they needed to see in me.

This is a look, a part of Australia we don’t see. The wide streets, the architecture, the embassies, the space. It’s really beautiful and there’s a feel to Canberra that is different to any other city.

I enjoyed translating half a Bible page, with my mom back in Australia, into Hebrew.

Personally, I’m such a cynic.

Spain’s beautiful.

With the quarantine and borders suddenly closing it could have meant suddenly being stranded on the other side of the planet. It’s a shame I haven’t been able to see my family in Australia but it never became an option. But certainly, when it’s all over I will be heading back.

Every now and then we get one voice which stands out, a really unique voice we embrace, like a Josh Thomas.

In everything I do, having it be important or try to express something or it having the ability to demystify something or draw attention to the nuance of something is always interesting to me.

I think that there’s something that goes on for Robert Langdon where he has a hard time connecting with people.

A guy who needs to prove himself is exactly who you don’t want in charge of creating the most destructive invention human kind has ever made.

There’s this attitude that you have to love your characters, and I think that’s a nice trick if you have trouble identifying with bad behavior but I don’t think I have trouble with that.

I had gone to university and done engineering and then I got into art school and said I’m going to do this for three years.

Just to be paid as an actor was something I didn’t think was going to be possible.

I’ve been very lucky with The Code’ and Manhattan’ in that I’ve been working with networks that are deeply supportive of the authorial voice.

That’s a genre that we haven’t seen much of for a while. Those action-adventure-comedy, but yet intellectual films.

There is something in the micro-gestures in Australia that I just understand. It’s something I grew up with – how people interact, the slight differences in language and gestures, that I just understand and it puts me at ease.

To be honest, I don’t think we were taught much of anything in school.

The experience of reading is very interesting because you put yourself in the character’s shoes and everything they’re discovering, you marry the experience.

I came up in Australia and I was really lucky that straight out of school I was hired in a play. It was a production of ‘The History Boys.’

Whether it’s Tom Hanks or whether it’s the character of Robert Langdon himself, both loom as large.

I actually find it’s one of the things that lifts me up every day, coming to work and just seeing people always overcoming. That’s something that I think a film set does so well all the time.

I’m not immune to being daunted.