Jason Isaacs

“Playing a villain is great fun. You get to be naughty and do things you'd never do in real life.”

“I've always been drawn to tormented people.”

“The thing about villains is that they're the heroes of their own stories.”

“I think the best villains are the ones that you can empathize with.”

“I'm interested in people who are damaged.”

“For a long time, I was a very angry person. I was a punk.”

“I was a late starter. I didn't start acting until I was 23.”

“There's no such thing as a small part, only small actors.”

“The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.”

“If you don't feel a little bit of fear when you're acting, you're not doing it right.”

“The joy of acting is to be able to be other people. I can't think of a better job.”

“I don't take myself too seriously. I think that's the key to longevity.”

“There's nothing more boring than a character who's just evil for the sake of being evil.”

“Fame is a perverse deformity, an illness of the modern world.”

“The great thing about being an actor is you can get to do all the things you'd never do in your real life.”