Oscar Isaac Quotes
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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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I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot.
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Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve.
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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.'
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I guess 'Scarface' was the Cuban Al Pacino.
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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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A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Robin Hood.'
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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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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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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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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've never been interested in celebrity.
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Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now.
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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 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 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.