Oscar Isaac Quotes

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

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

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

"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."

"I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home."

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

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

"There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices."

"I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile, I laugh. Basic stuff for most people."

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

"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."

"I guess 'Scarface' was the Cuban Al Pacino."

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

"Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation."

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

"With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly."

"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.'"

"My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I wanted to learn to play guitar, so I got an acoustic and started taking lessons. I wanted to be able to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen."

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

"I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi."

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

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

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

"You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't."

"Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us."

"I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot."

"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."

"I think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very quickly learn how hard it is to survive doing those kinds of things, not to mention make a living at them."

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