Oscar Isaac Quotes
I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part.
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I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.
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This is a group playing together and that's the only way, I feel, this play can be successful and moving. I am so lucky to have the people that are in it. When I came here I didn't know who was going to be in the play.
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Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'
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The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.
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I'm a couch potato. I love to stay in and just watch a DVD with the missus. Or we all go over to Louis's house and watch 'X Factor.'
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The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
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I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
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There are different reasons to make movies.
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If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.
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The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads or what the referee says, it doesn't end when you come off the court.
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No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
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Some people need sequins, others don't.
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God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart, and God listens. And this listening and this speaking is what prayer is meant to be.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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I look more to the future. That's where my head is at.
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We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part.
