Jason Clarke

“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.”

“I'm glad to have grown up in the countryside and played, and had to use my imagination rather than a TV and had to learn to act the hard way, to have dealt with the rejection. It's a life as well as a job, at the end the day, we all have to work for a living, but we have to have a life as well.”

“As an actor, the first thing you learn in drama school is you never judge.”

“I was particularly happy to do a potential franchise where I was not putting on a mask or a pair of tights.”

“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.”

“I like working, and I like the freedom where all that matters is my work.”

“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.”

“Yes, films need to make their money back - it's an expensive business, and people need to be paid for what's involved - but just because you can, it doesn't mean you should.”

“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.”

“The Spanish love their paella, and they love their jamon. And they love their football.”

“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.”

“Look at a guy like Ian McKellen, who is eighty or whatever, and he's just loving his work, and you can see that in the work. That defines what type of actor you are. And what kind of people want to work with you. And whether you can do this job for a long, long time.”

“My favorite part of any project is the preparation. It's where you get to meet the people, the experts.”

“I think it's very important to allow people into Ted Kennedy. Thousands of people lined the streets the day of his funeral.”

“We're a very judgmental society.”

“I've had amazing experiences with directors who believed in me.”

“In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.”

“You need mystery. You actually do. I think that's what foreign women, French women in particular, are good at. There's still a sense that you need to keep some of the unknown because that's where the soul resides, or something.”

“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.'”

“Phillip Noyce was not just good to me but an inspiration to me.”