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" I guess 'Scarface' was the Cuban Al Pacino. "
Oscar Isaac
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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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" 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. "
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" I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher. "
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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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" There's very few geniuses that come and revolutionize everything. For the rest of us that want to be artists and have something to say, it's a lot of work and a lot of luck. "
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" That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro. "
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" Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve. "
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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. "
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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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" 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 had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people. "
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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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" My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason. "
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" In the 1960s, there was a forward way of speaking and inflection. "
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" I like the idea of the comedy of resilience. "
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" I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar. "
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" I played guitar and bass. I didn't do much vocals, although I did have one band where I was the lead singer. But that was when I was in college. "
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" I like films that take their time a little bit more and don't show you all of their cards right away, characters that are conflicted and contradicting and seem one way at first and then suddenly turn out to be something else. "
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" 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. "
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" I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie. "
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" All of my high school issues are resolved! "
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" I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot. "
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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 was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident. "
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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 the movie's about. It's so much more fun to be surprised. "
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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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