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" In the 1960s, there was a forward way of speaking and inflection. "
Oscar Isaac
Speaking
Forward
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" The very first proper play I did was 'Godspell,' and I played the guitar for it, and I had a small part in a high school play. And before that, in sixth grade, I wrote a musical about Noah's ark. "
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" 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. "
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" I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for a long while. It's like people. You hang out with them for 10 years, and then all of a sudden they do something, and you say, 'Who are you?' That's more interesting. In life and on-screen. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Robin Hood.' "
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