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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 Soeze moment. "

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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. "

Oscar Isaac

Why

Think

People

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

" 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. "

" 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

Play

Place

" I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident. "

" Our morality is based on so many factors: of where we were born, who we were born to, what values were instilled in us, what values we chose, the way that our lives have shaped us. That dictates so much of what we assume is our morality, and also the culture, all of these things. "

Oscar Isaac

Way

Morality

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

" I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that. "

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

" I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want to be 'an actor.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Oscar Isaac

Friend

Very

" Advice? Look at your pay statements. "

" 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. "

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

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

" People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel. "

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

" I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music. "

" I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it. "

" I'm so bored by business and money. "

" 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. "

" The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation. "

" 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. "

" My family are huge 'Star Wars' fans. "

" 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

Kind

Voice

" Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid. "

" That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro. "