Oscar Isaac Quotes
I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi.
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As a songwriter, pop music really is a love and a joy and a science, and I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural.
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People take things so seriously.
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.
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I went to Phoenix, Arizona for 'Angel Unchained,' and they'd hire the bike gang from Phoenix to be extras in the movie.
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You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
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Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.
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I've campaigned for people. I've campaigned across the country for people. I have supported people in local elections. I do work with groups and causes. So, I feel like I am a participant and a civically-engaged citizen.
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The pop industry is so well-practised at channelling young people's creative energy that I think it gets abused.
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I make up stories in my head all the time, but I've never written them down. But I write a lot of story songs. Any song I'm singing, I sort of see it like a movie in my head. That's why a lot of times I close my eyes when I'm singing.
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Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.
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I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi.
