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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.
Oscar Isaac
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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.
Oscar Isaac
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I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.
Oscar Isaac
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J. J. Abrams is amazing.
Oscar Isaac
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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.
Oscar Isaac
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For me, with a character, you start with the shoes.
Oscar Isaac
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If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.
Oscar Isaac
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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.
Oscar Isaac
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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.
Oscar Isaac
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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.
Oscar Isaac
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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.
Oscar Isaac
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I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident.
Oscar Isaac
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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.
Oscar Isaac
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All of my high school issues are resolved!
Oscar Isaac
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I'm so bored by business and money.
Oscar Isaac
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I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.
Oscar Isaac
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I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part.
Oscar Isaac
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I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.
Oscar Isaac
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I guess 'Scarface' was the Cuban Al Pacino.
Oscar Isaac
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With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.
Oscar Isaac
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Max Minghella is a very close friend of mine, and I talk to him regularly.
Oscar Isaac
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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.
Oscar Isaac
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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.'
Oscar Isaac
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I wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool.
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