Oscar Isaac

My family are huge 'Star Wars' fans.

— Oscar Isaac

Talent is very hot.

— Oscar Isaac

Advice? Look at your pay statements.

— Oscar Isaac

J. J. Abrams is amazing.

— Oscar Isaac

I'm so bored by business and money.

— Oscar Isaac

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

— Oscar Isaac

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

— Oscar Isaac

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

— Oscar Isaac

I wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool.

— Oscar Isaac

In the 1960s, there was a forward way of speaking and inflection.

— Oscar Isaac

All of my high school issues are resolved!

— Oscar Isaac

If it was never new and it never gets old, then it's a folk song

— Oscar Isaac

I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home.

— Oscar Isaac

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

— Oscar Isaac

When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of…

— Oscar Isaac

There's a reason why actors are always dying to work with the Coens. They just set the stage for you to do…

— Oscar Isaac

To be able to shut off your emotions drastically, I think that the only way you can do that is if you…

— Oscar Isaac

'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool.

— Oscar Isaac

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…

— Oscar Isaac

Coen brothers movies are not always what life looks like but it's definitely what life feels like.

— Oscar Isaac

I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want…

— Oscar Isaac

I'm really sick of anthems. Every song has to be a very big singalong thing - it feels very Eighties. There are…

— Oscar Isaac

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…

— Oscar Isaac

A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting…

— Oscar Isaac

I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in…

— Oscar Isaac

I think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very…

— Oscar Isaac

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…

— Oscar Isaac

I've listened to Dylan my entire life. My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat…

— Oscar Isaac

There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of…

— Oscar Isaac

I don't know why people are so obsessed with finding out stuff before the movie comes out. It's so much more fun…

— Oscar Isaac

People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel.

— Oscar Isaac

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

— Oscar Isaac

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

— Oscar Isaac

I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.

— Oscar Isaac

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

— Oscar Isaac

I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.

— Oscar Isaac

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

— Oscar Isaac

I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.

— Oscar Isaac

Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now.

— Oscar Isaac

I guess 'Scarface' was the Cuban Al Pacino.

— Oscar Isaac