Oscar Isaac Quotes

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Oscar Isaac

Profession : Actor

Birth : January 5, 1980

In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that.

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I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.

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I wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool.

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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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Advice? Look at your pay statements.

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I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for a long while. It's like people. You hang out with them for 10 years, and then all of a sudden they do something, and you say, 'Who are you?' That's more interesting. In life and on-screen.

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I've never been interested in celebrity.

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I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want to be 'an actor.'

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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.

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Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now.

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I've been fortunate to be working mostly right out of school. Every year, there was a little something, and it kept the confidence going. It's about confidence and the belief.

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Talent is very hot.

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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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The first movie I can remember seeing in the theater was 'Return of the Jedi.' I can remember seeing Darth Vader's helmet come off. The shock of that moment.

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The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.

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In the 1960s, there was a forward way of speaking and inflection.

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