Oscar Isaac Quotes
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I want someone who will love me for the person I am and not because of my status. It has to be someone who understands the pressure of playing for India. It will be very difficult to be with a person who has her own career because someone has to make sacrifices for the family and house.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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I just lip gloss! It doesn't matter if it's $2 or $30.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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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 have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.
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Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming.
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Look at the computer industry. I've watched a lot of companies come and go, some that were right at the pinnacle of their success.
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I couldn't meet his gaze. I stared at the table just behind him--the mess of cards on it, the lantern giving off its quiet glow. "When you gave me your shirt to wear that night, I could feel you. I could feel your essence." The world went still. We were standing only inches from each other, not touching. Outside, I could hear the faint murmur of the wind blowing through the trees. "What did it feel like?" he asked in a low voice. "Like...coming home," I admitted.
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People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel.
