Oscar Isaac Quotes: top 75 famous quotes about Oscar Isaac

Oscar Isaac Quotes & Sayings

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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. — Oscar Isaac

If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out. — Oscar Isaac

My family are huge 'Star Wars' fans. — Oscar Isaac

Advice? Look at your pay statements. — Oscar Isaac

My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff. — Oscar Isaac

The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting. — Oscar Isaac

Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now. — Oscar Isaac

Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid. — Oscar Isaac

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. — Oscar Isaac

I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home. — Oscar Isaac

I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that. — Oscar Isaac

I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.' — Oscar Isaac

With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly. — Oscar Isaac

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. — Oscar Isaac

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

If it was never new and it never gets old, then it's a folk song — Oscar Isaac

The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation. — Oscar Isaac

The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people. — Oscar Isaac

I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people. — Oscar Isaac

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

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. — Oscar Isaac

A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Robin Hood.' — Oscar Isaac

I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently. — Oscar Isaac

I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role. — Oscar Isaac

I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part. — Oscar Isaac

The hardest things to do in any art is to risk failure and put yourself out on the line. — Oscar Isaac

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

My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason. — Oscar Isaac

I guess 'Scarface' was the Cuban Al Pacino. — Oscar Isaac

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

There's a reason why actors are always dying to work with the Coens. They just set the stage for you to do their best work. — Oscar Isaac

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. — Oscar Isaac

I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands. — Oscar Isaac

I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view. — Oscar Isaac

Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it. — Oscar Isaac

I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York. — Oscar Isaac

What's most interesting about trying to figure out AI is the questions that it forces you to ask about the nature of consciousness. — Oscar Isaac

Max Minghella is a very close friend of mine, and I talk to him regularly. — Oscar Isaac

I like the idea of the comedy of resilience. — Oscar Isaac

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. — Oscar Isaac

For me, with a character, you start with the shoes. — Oscar Isaac

I'm open to the idea of doing more musicals if it's one that I really enjoy. — Oscar Isaac

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

The superhero aesthetic is all about the human form and showing the body, whether they be female or male. — Oscar Isaac

Talent is very hot. — Oscar Isaac

I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident. — Oscar Isaac

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

I've never been interested in celebrity. — Oscar Isaac

A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear. — Oscar Isaac

To be able to shut off your emotions drastically, I think that the only way you can do that is if you have some of sociopathic qualities. — Oscar Isaac

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

All of my high school issues are resolved! — Oscar Isaac

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. — Oscar Isaac

I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return. — Oscar Isaac

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

I always like teaser trailers because they don't give too much away, you know? They give just a flavor of what the thing is. — Oscar Isaac

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

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. — Oscar Isaac

I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it. — Oscar Isaac

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. — Oscar Isaac

That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro. — Oscar Isaac

Coen brothers movies are not always what life looks like but it's definitely what life feels like. — Oscar Isaac

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. — Oscar Isaac

People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel. — Oscar Isaac

I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher. — Oscar Isaac

There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices. — Oscar Isaac

J. J. Abrams is amazing. — Oscar Isaac

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. — Oscar Isaac

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

I played guitar and bass. I didn't do much vocals, although I did have one band where I was the lead singer. But that was when I was in college. — Oscar Isaac

I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar. — Oscar Isaac

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.' — Oscar Isaac

I'm so bored by business and money. — Oscar Isaac

I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot. — Oscar Isaac

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