Oscar Isaac Quotes
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Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn't exactly sure what a Knick was.
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First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
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I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.
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Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.
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The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret – that's really distasteful to me.
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I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.
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I have no idea when it's going to be, when I'll retire.
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Outside of 'Justified,' I do like to keep it to comedy. When I'm not there, I try to seek out stuff that sort of more along the lighter fare. I have more fun on those sets than I do on drama sets just because when it's heavy, it's heavy, and it's hard to get away from it.
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My comedy doesn't come from any calculations and studies.
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When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.
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The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a character and transforming him.
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I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.
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I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.
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There are so many problems in the E.U. that several countries are warming up to the idea that after the single currency, a deeper integration could also be created.
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I've always been excited at the idea of performing a solo show.
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The idea was always to be an actor.
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Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.
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My second or third year in the engineering department, I got very frustrated, and I sat down with myself and had a soul-searching conversation with myself and said, 'What I'd really like to do is see if I can write comedy.' ... I moved to L.A. stone cold. Didn't know anybody; didn't know how to go about it. Really started from scratch.
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I really enjoyed multicamera comedy. You film in front of a live audience, and it's kind of the best of both worlds. It's like doing a one-act play every week, but if you screw your lines up, you get to do it over.
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All comedy does that. Every comedian I can think of - Larry David, Seinfeld, Mel Brooks, Chris Rock - that's where the best comedy comes from, from stereotypes.
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About half the scripts sent to me feature characters I just can't identify with, particularly one-dimensional businessmen or, if it's a comedy, some absurd 10-year-old Japanese stereotype, some role related to IT or business... There's no point in getting mad about it; it's just the way things are.
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I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.
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Fear is where there is no love. Love is where there is no fear.
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I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.
