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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I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part.
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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 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 like the idea of the comedy of resilience.
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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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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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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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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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'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool.
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With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.
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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 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 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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Max Minghella is a very close friend of mine, and I talk to him regularly.
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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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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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I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot.
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A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Robin Hood.'