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All Quotes by author - Oscar Isaac

" Advice? Look at your pay statements. "

" All of my high school issues are resolved! "

" A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 the movie's about. It's so much more fun to be surprised. "

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

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

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

" I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year. "

" I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home. "

" 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. "

" I guess 'Scarface' was the Cuban Al Pacino. "

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

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

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