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

  

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

  

  Camille Paglia
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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  • Garden

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

  

  Eddie Murphy
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  • Always
  • Confidence

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

  

  Fran Drescher
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  • Character
  • Me

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

  

  Octavia E. Butler
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  • Story

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

  

  Laura Schlessinger
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  • 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
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  • 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
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• The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
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  • 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
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  • You

• I do this a lot with names. I'll start with a name, and then for some reason he won't talk much, or he's older than I pictured him just because of a name I give him. So then I finally get the right name, and I can't shut the guy up. This always happens. There's always a character who gives me trouble that way.

  

  Elmore Leonard
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• Do something! Start something! As you make consistent efforts, you will begin to see your goals come into focus. You will discover your mission--the one only you can fulfill.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
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  • Goals

• The stuff that works best is driven by passion rather than dollars.

  

  Craig Newmark
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  • Stuff
  • Works

• In New York, you walk everywhere, so you're amongst people all of the time, and everybody is in a hurry and going somewhere or has something on their minds. And in L.A., it's still much more of a laid-back life, at least in my experience.

  

  Dakota Fanning
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  • Time

• Addepar not only helps improve private wealth management workflows so that advisors can do a better job at what they currently do, but it also helps build a data-driven and integrated view on top of the many important financial decisions within a client portfolio.

  

  Joe Lonsdale
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• 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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