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Oscar Isaac
Actor
Born:
Jan 5
,
1980
Always
Guitar
People
Think
Time
You
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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.
Oscar Isaac
Saying
Good
You
Think
Scared
Fearless
More
Feel
Repercussions
Being
Little
Being Scared
I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
Oscar Isaac
Like
Himself
Role
Being
Who
Each
Chameleon
J. J. Abrams is amazing.
Oscar Isaac
Amazing
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
Smile
Saying
Me
You
People
Language
Everything
Laugh
About
Stuff
Come
Most
Where
Place
Mean
Body
Body Language
Even
Basic
Harm
I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part.
Oscar Isaac
Me
Personality
Had
Part
Josh
Audition
His
Get
Where
Cats are impossible to work with. They're just very difficult because you can't really train them. They're not really interested in whatever you want them to do. Dogs want to please you; cats only want to please themselves.
Oscar Isaac
Work
You
Cats
Impossible
Whatever
Difficult
Please
Only
Because
Dogs
Very
Train
Just
Want
Interested
Them
Themselves
Really
There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are.
Oscar Isaac
People
Events
Matter
Rest
Few
Way
Shakespeare
Like
Were
Lot
End
Up
Very
Did
Few People
Order
Happen
Gonna
Us
Who
Things
With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.
Oscar Isaac
You
Thinking
Exactly
Constantly
Exactly What
Shakespeare
Subtext
Speaking
I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands.
Oscar Isaac
Know
Were
Bunch
Bands
Did
Play
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.
Oscar Isaac
Music
Time
Guitar
Able
Taking
Like
Him
Learn
Always
Got
Heard
Lot
Wanted
Decided
Acoustic
Then
Lessons
Dad
Shred
Play
Played
Started
Playing
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
Music
Kind
Simon
Cat
Cat Stevens
Stuff
His
Huge
Listened
Fan
Dylan
Bob
Bob Dylan
Dad
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.
Oscar Isaac
Big
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Dramatic
Embarrassing
Kind
Voice
Through
Never
Like
Singer
Terrible
Sound
Cure
Trying
Much
Phase
I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.
Oscar Isaac
Year
Wear
Attached
Get
Same
Jeans
Things
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
You
Fear
More
More Than Anything
Neuroses
Weird
Like
Know
Than
Egos
Just
Dish
Movie
Anything
Movie Set
Personalities
Set
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
Myself
Character
Else
Circumstances
See
Someone
Part
Just
Much
Certain
Creating
Specific
Playing
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 singer or the bass player.
Oscar Isaac
You
People
Hide
Protection
Punk
Stage
Bass
Bass Player
Other
Guitars
Plug
Some
Throw
Lead
Lead Singer
Singer
Always
Got
Were
Up
Loud
Five
Bands
Behind
Them
Turn
Really
Four
Player
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
Funny
Time
Van
About
Dave
Exciting
Talks
How
Lot
Mayor
Electric
Street
I'm so bored by business and money.
Oscar Isaac
Business
Money
Bored
'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.
Oscar Isaac
Other
Wild
Throwback
Dudes
Very
Going
After
Each
Film
Two
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
You
Quality
Righteous
Kind
Does
How
Up
Just
Just Kind
Mean
Really
Stand
Stand Up
Actor
Play
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.
Oscar Isaac
Crazy
Sometimes
Think
Way
Say
He
Feels
Talented
Because
Artist
Just
Anybody
Just Because
Really
Successful
Means
Believes
If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.
Oscar Isaac
You
Communicate
Think
See
Allow
Ideas
Audience
Trying
Themselves
Start
'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.
Oscar Isaac
Drive
Films
Sophisticated
Piece
Genre
Lot
Times
Get
Really
I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return.
Oscar Isaac
Passion
Think
Something
Return
Romantic
Wanting
Little
I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.
Oscar Isaac
Think
Heroic
Way
Must
Some
Protagonist
Conditioned
Whereas
Theater
Movies
Reason
Necessary
Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
Oscar Isaac
Kid
Crush
Biggest
Jessica
Jessica Lange
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