Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I was interested in the war part of 'Star Wars,' so I started reading about what it's like to go to war, what that does to you psychically, about the adrenaline and the rush. "

Related Quotes:

" 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

Weird

You

" I've never been interested in celebrity. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

Oscar Isaac

Hospital

Reason

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Oscar Isaac

Personal

Hood

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

" Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it. "

" I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in. "

" I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role. "

" 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. "

" I'm open to the idea of doing more musicals if it's one that I really enjoy. "

Oscar Isaac

Idea

Enjoy

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" J. J. Abrams is amazing. "

Oscar Isaac

Amazing

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