Oscar Isaac Quotes
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'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool.
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I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.
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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 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 like the idea of the comedy of resilience.
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I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in.
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I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident.
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J. J. Abrams is amazing.
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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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I guess 'Scarface' was the Cuban Al Pacino.
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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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My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I wanted to learn to play guitar, so I got an acoustic and started taking lessons. I wanted to be able to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen.
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I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.
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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 always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.'
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I'm so bored by business and money.
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I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for a long while. It's like people. You hang out with them for 10 years, and then all of a sudden they do something, and you say, 'Who are you?' That's more interesting. In life and on-screen.
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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.
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All of my high school issues are resolved!
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I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.
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Max Minghella is a very close friend of mine, and I talk to him regularly.
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When I came up to New York to do a play, I passed by Julliard, and I was like, 'Oh I heard of this place.' I applied, and ended up getting in.
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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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Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.