Oscar Isaac Quotes
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There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are.
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'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool.
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If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.
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I always like teaser trailers because they don't give too much away, you know? They give just a flavor of what the thing is.
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I think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very quickly learn how hard it is to survive doing those kinds of things, not to mention make a living at them.
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All of my high school issues are resolved!
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For me, with a character, you start with the shoes.
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I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.
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Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.
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I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.
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I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
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I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile, I laugh. Basic stuff for most people.
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I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.
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J. J. Abrams is amazing.
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Max Minghella is a very close friend of mine, and I talk to him regularly.
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I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part.
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That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro.
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I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.
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With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.
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A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.
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I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident.
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I'm really sick of anthems. Every song has to be a very big singalong thing - it feels very Eighties. There are a lot of 'whoah whoa whoahs,' this stadium thing. You're even getting that from some of the 'folk' groups. I can't stand it.
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Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.
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I wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool.