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" There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices. "
Oscar Isaac
Unlimited
Nothing
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves. "
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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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" My family are huge 'Star Wars' fans. "
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" The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting. "
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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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" 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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Long
" 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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" Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid. "
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Biggest
" You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there. "
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Whale
You
" 'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other. "
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Film
Going
" I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people. "
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Tom
Great
Conversation
" Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now. "
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Meaningless
Getting
" Advice? Look at your pay statements. "
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Advice
Statements
Look
" 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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Circumstances
Myself
See
" I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that. "
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Good
Feel
Fearless
" 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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Devil
Kid
" Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it. "
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Write
Some
Song
" In the 1960s, there was a forward way of speaking and inflection. "
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Speaking
Forward
1960s
" I like the idea of the comedy of resilience. "
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Resilience
Like
Comedy
" What's funny in 'The Mayor of MacDougal Street' is how Dave Van Ronk talks a lot about the time and how exciting it was and how electric it was. "
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Street
Time
Exciting
" For me, with a character, you start with the shoes. "
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You
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.' "
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Happy
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool. "
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" I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary. "
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" I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently. "
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