- Actor | January 5, 1980 -
If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.
Oscar Isaac
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If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out.
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'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.
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I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return.
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I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.'
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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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Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
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I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.
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Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.
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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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'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool.
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I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident.
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