Oscar Isaac Quotes
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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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I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part.
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For me, with a character, you start with the shoes.
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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 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 get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.
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All of my high school issues are resolved!
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I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.
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I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
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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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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 grew up in a very devoutly Christian home.
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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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Max Minghella is a very close friend of mine, and I talk to him regularly.
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'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool.
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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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With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.
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I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.
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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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When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.
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My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff.
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I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot.
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A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated.
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A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Robin Hood.'