The first movie I can remember seeing in the theater was ‘Return of the Jedi.’ I can remember seeing Darth Vader’s helmet come off. The shock of that moment. Oscar Isaac Read Quote
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. Oscar Isaac Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I don’t know why people are so obsessed with finding out stuff before the movie comes out. It’s so much more fun to just go. I mean, I don’t do that. I don’t go looking for stuff that I’m interested in, you know, to try and find out pictures and what the movie’s about. It’s so much more fun to be surprised. Oscar Isaac Read Quote
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. Oscar Isaac Read Quote
The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don’t necessarily want the audience to know my motivation. Oscar Isaac Read Quote
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. Oscar Isaac Read Quote
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. Oscar Isaac Read Quote
