Oscar Isaac Quotes
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I wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be 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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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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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've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot.
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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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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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Cats are impossible to work with. They're just very difficult because you can't really train them. They're not really interested in whatever you want them to do. Dogs want to please you; cats only want to please themselves.
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A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Robin Hood.'
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Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve.
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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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There's very few geniuses that come and revolutionize everything. For the rest of us that want to be artists and have something to say, it's a lot of work and a lot of luck.
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It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that.
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I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return.
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The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.
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Our morality is based on so many factors: of where we were born, who we were born to, what values were instilled in us, what values we chose, the way that our lives have shaped us. That dictates so much of what we assume is our morality, and also the culture, all of these things.
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I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.
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If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out.
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My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.
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I was never much of a singer. I was terrible. It's embarrassing: I was trying to sound like everybody else. I went through a big Cure phase, so I was trying to do that kind of dramatic voice.
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I've never been interested in celebrity.
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Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now.
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I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently.
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What you wear can be such an indicator of so many things. You know, how you feel, how you want others to perceive you. So, that is an absolutely essential part of building a character.