Quotes by Oscar Isaac

About Oscar Isaac:

Oscar Isaac is a Guatemalan American actor and singer. He is known for his lead roles in Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination, A Most Violent Year (2014) and Ex Machina (2015). He will star in the upcoming films Star Wars: The Force Awakens as Poe Dameron and X-Men: Apocalypse as the titular supervillain Apocalypse. He also stars in the HBO miniseries Show Me a Hero.
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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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'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.'

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 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

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

Oscar Isaac

Advice? Look at your pay statements.

Oscar Isaac

Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now.

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

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.

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I guess 'Scarface' was the Cuban Al Pacino.

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I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.

Oscar Isaac

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

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

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I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.

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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.

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.

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

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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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Author Bio

  • NameOscar Isaac
  • DescriptionGuatemalan-born American actor and singer
  • BornMarch 9, 1979
  • CountryUnited States Of America; Guatemala
  • ProfessionActor