Oscar Isaac Quotes

When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.

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• I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Fear
  • Myself
  • Goddess

• My motivation has always been health - eating healthy and taking care of myself.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Health
  • Myself
  • motivation

• When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• I consider myself not a conservative libertarian but a radical '60s libertarian.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Myself
  • Conservative

• What we've seen of Rey, she looks like she can handle her stuff. So most of the comments I get are from parents who say how wonderful it is that their little girls can see this character.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Character
  • Parents
  • Stuff

• It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.

  

  Yael Stone
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Know

• It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • Time
  • Character
  • Relationship

• My dream as an actor growing up was always to challenge myself to different genres, different roles, and it's actually rare that an actor's given that opportunity to do that.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
  • Different
  • Dream

• One of the first gardens I did outside the family was for the designer Hattie Carnegie. I was 23 then, and I went to her salon, but could not afford any of her dresses myself, though I loved them. Miss Carnegie suggested I do a garden in exchange for a coat and dress, and so I designed and planted a garden for her.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • Family
  • Myself
  • Garden

• I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Myself
  • Always
  • Confidence

• I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Home
  • Character
  • Me

• Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Story

• Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Character
  • Worry
  • Integrity

• This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Character
  • Story
  • Birth

• If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Character
  • Job
  • Nice

• What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Time
  • Work
  • Why

• The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Character
  • Human
  • Analysis

• There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • She
  • Character
  • You

• Worry is the most popular form of suicide. Worry impairs appetite, disturbs sleep, makes respiration irregular, spoils digestion, irritates disposition, warps character, weakens mind, stimulates disease, and saps bodily health. It is the real cause of death in thousands of instances where some other disease is named on the death certificate.

  

  William George Jordan
  • Character
  • Appetite
  • Digestion

• When you left the house today, you had the intention of putting clothes on and you did. You didn't try to put your pants on today. You simply put them on. The same has to hold for all of our intentions. We don't try to be more loving partners. We make the intention, and we act on it.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Today
  • House
  • Clothes

• The xx do not condone guns!

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Guns
  • Condone

• We go to Europe, and they think we're totally prejudiced 'cause we hang the bars and stripes. But for us, the bars and stripes doesn't mean we want to see anybody in slavery or anything like that. It's just our heritage. To us, the bars and stripes means grits, 'y'all,' and the beauty of the South. There's no prejudice at all in that with us.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Europe
  • Bars
  • Stripes

• When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.

  

  Oscar Isaac
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