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

Oscar Isaac

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

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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.

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

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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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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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I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead...

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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 don't know why people are so obsessed with finding out stuff before the movie comes out. It's so much more fun to just go. I mean, I don't do that. I don't go looking for stuff that I'm interested in, you know, to try and find out pictures and what...

Oscar Isaac

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.

Oscar Isaac

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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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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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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The very first proper play I did was 'Godspell,' and I played the guitar for it, and I had a small part in a high school play. And before that, in sixth grade, I wrote a musical about Noah's ark.

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Author Bio

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