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Jason Clarke

(1969) Actor Australia

32 quotes in 175 categories

Jason Clarke is an actor from Australia, best known for Constructing Experience.

Quick Facts About Jason Clarke

Born: July 17, 1969
Nationality: Australia
Profession: Actor
Notable works: Constructing Experience

About Jason Clarke

Jason Clarke is an Australian actor. He has appeared in many TV series, and is known for playing Tommy Caffee on the television series Brotherhood. He has also appeared in many films, often as an antagonist. His film roles include Death Race (2008), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Lawless (2012), White House Down (2013), Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), Terminator Genisys (2015), Everest (2015), All I See Is You (2016), Mudbound (2017), The Man with the Iron Heart (2017), Chappaquiddick (2017), First Man (2018), Pet Sematary (2019), The Devil All the Time (2020), and Oppenheimer (2023). In 2022, he starred in the HBO sports drama series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty as former Los Angeles Lakers player turned coach Jerry West.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Jason Clarke

A lot of my climbing and hiking gear is all wool because I can wear it for a week straight and it…

Cold

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

Actors

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My father was a sheep shearer, so I grew up in a caravan; we'd go around from shearing shed to shearing shed.…

Father

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You need mystery. You actually do. I think that's what foreign women, French women in particular, are good at. There's still a…

Good

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'Zero Dark Thirty' raised the stakes. It raised the stakes in cinema, man. I don't think people really know how to grasp…

Cinema

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I love a good wool suit, and I appreciate the fact that it's a natural fiber. I know where it comes from,…

Appreciate

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Anytime you're in fear for your life, it's intense.

Anytime

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I'm not against anybody - everyone does what they need to do.

Against

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Look at a guy like Ian McKellen, who is eighty or whatever, and he's just loving his work, and you can see…

Actor

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

Good

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

Hard

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I'm an actor doing a job, but I'm also living a life.

Actor

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I can remember very clearly sitting in a little room in my apartment going, 'You know what, Jace? I think it's time…

Go

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That's one of the challenges of acting. You can't expect that you're going to be successful, but you've got to put your…

Acting

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We're a very judgmental society.

Judgmental

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

Experts

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

Freedom

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I can't complain about the roles that have come my way.

Complaining

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With acting, you do want to get every job, and you're trying to get every audition, but then you reach a certain…

Acting

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

Football

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My career has worked out exactly how I like, and I am just happy to go to a coffee shop and nobody…

Career

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Yes, films need to make their money back - it's an expensive business, and people need to be paid for what's involved…

Back

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Europeans have it better than the Americans. The Americans work too hard. The balance is out of whack. Europe's hung onto a…

Balance

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

Day

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I do want to have holidays and see my family and friends.

Family

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