Oscar Isaac Quotes
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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 started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that.
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J. J. Abrams is amazing.
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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 like films that take their time a little bit more and don't show you all of their cards right away, characters that are conflicted and contradicting and seem one way at first and then suddenly turn out to be something else.
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For me, with a character, you start with the shoes.
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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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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 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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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 was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident.
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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 guess 'Scarface' was the Cuban Al Pacino.
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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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All of my high school issues are resolved!
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I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.
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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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Max Minghella is a very close friend of mine, and I talk to him regularly.
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With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.
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I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.
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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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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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I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.'