Oscar Isaac Quotes

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Oscar Isaac

Profession : Actor

Birth : January 5, 1980

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 think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return.

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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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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.

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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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Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve.

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For me, with a character, you start with the shoes.

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All of my high school issues are resolved!

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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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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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'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.

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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 like the idea of the comedy of resilience.

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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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I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.

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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 think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.

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Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.

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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.

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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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