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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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Oscar Isaac

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Feel

Character

" I've never been interested in celebrity. "

" I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie. "

" I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices. "

" 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. "

" I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return. "

" If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out. "

" Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later. "

Oscar Isaac

Situation

Eye

" I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" J. J. Abrams is amazing. "

Oscar Isaac

Amazing

" All of my high school issues are resolved! "

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

" How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality. "

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

" 'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other. "

" The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people. "

" I like the idea of the comedy of resilience. "

Oscar Isaac

Resilience

Comedy

" 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. "

" 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 wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "