Oscar Isaac Quotes
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I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident.
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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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That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro.
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Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve.
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J. J. Abrams is amazing.
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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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I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.
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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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I wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool.
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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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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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I guess 'Scarface' was the Cuban Al Pacino.
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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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My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.
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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'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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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 think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return.
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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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When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult to leave that behind.
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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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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.