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

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My family are huge 'Star Wars' fans.

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I'm so bored by business and money.

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

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I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home.

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Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation.

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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'

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My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I wanted to learn to play guitar, so I got an acoustic and started taking lessons. I wanted to be able to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen.

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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...

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I remember the first time my mind was blown by an actor was Tim Curry, because I loved 'Clue' when I was a kid, and then I was watching the movie 'Legend,' and the Devil suddenly smiles, and I was like, 'It's the same guy!' It was a total Keyser Soez...

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Author Bio

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