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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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.
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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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Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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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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I am a businessman.
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For me, the most effective cabaret evenings have been some of the most personal ones, where the performer is comfortable enough to simply be themselves.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part.
