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. Oscar Isaac Read Quote
I played guitar and bass. I didn’t do much vocals, although I did have one band where I was the lead singer. But that was when I was in college. Oscar Isaac Read Quote
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. Oscar Isaac Read Quote
My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason. Oscar Isaac Read Quote
A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It’s just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear. Oscar Isaac Read Quote
I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view. Oscar Isaac Read Quote
I always joked with my parents. I told them, ‘If I don’t make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.’ Oscar Isaac Read Quote
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. Oscar Isaac Read Quote
