Oscar Isaac Quotes

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Oscar Isaac

Profession : Actor

Birth : January 5, 1980

What's funny in 'The Mayor of MacDougal Street' is how Dave Van Ronk talks a lot about the time and how exciting it was and how electric it was.

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I'm so bored by business and money.

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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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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.

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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.

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It'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really believes that, but sometimes it feels that way.

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I guess 'Scarface' was the Cuban Al Pacino.

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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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If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.

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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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'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.

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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 think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.

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Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.

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'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool.

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I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident.

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My family are huge 'Star Wars' fans.

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Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.

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I like films that take their time a little bit more and don't show you all of their cards right away, characters that are conflicted and contradicting and seem one way at first and then suddenly turn out to be something else.

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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.

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