Top 33 Quotes & Sayings by Ashley Zukerman

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Australian actor Ashley Zukerman.
Last updated on November 18, 2024.
Ashley Zukerman

Ashley Zukerman is an Australian-American actor known for playing Dr. Charlie Isaacs on WGN America's Manhattan, Senior Constable Michael Sandrelli in Australian drama series Rush, and Jesse Banks in the Australian political thriller The Code, for which he received an AACTA Award for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama in 2014. He also played a recurring role in Succession. In 2021, he portrayed Robert Langdon in the TV series adaptation of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol.

I had to read up on the Freemasons, about secret societies, and dip my toe into art history.
I'm not immune to being daunted.
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.
Spain's beautiful. — © Ashley Zukerman
Spain's beautiful.
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.
That's a genre that we haven't seen much of for a while. Those action-adventure-comedy, but yet intellectual films.
Whether it's Tom Hanks or whether it's the character of Robert Langdon himself, both loom as large.
I read something recently about authorities using facial recognition in cities to track people simply walking around. That's kind of unsettling.
To be honest, I don't think we were taught much of anything in school.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.'
Every now and then we get one voice which stands out, a really unique voice we embrace, like a Josh Thomas.
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 think the characters Nick and Solomon, the characters on Fear Street,' were definitely further from myself. But I think ultimately I do try to look for the gristle in every character.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Most human beings, there's a spectrum of bad behavior.
I just felt like I was mining Dan Brown's work.
Just to be paid as an actor was something I didn't think was going to be possible.
I enjoyed translating half a Bible page, with my mom back in Australia, into Hebrew. — © Ashley Zukerman
I enjoyed translating half a Bible page, with my mom back in Australia, into Hebrew.
TV has become long-form now. A season can be like a 13-hour film, separated into episodes, so you can analyse a character for five years and talk about the things that films used to talk about but don't any more.
Personally, I'm such a cynic.
I don't have a dogma that gives me a compass, that occupies me.
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.
I think that there's something that goes on for Robert Langdon where he has a hard time connecting with people.
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.
In recent years it's become really apparent, the division between what government is and what communities want.
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