Oscar Isaac

I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'

I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.

I like films that take their time a little bit more and don't show you all of their cards right away, characters that are conflicted and contradicting and seem one way at first and then suddenly turn out to be something else.

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.

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.

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

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 always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.'

I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.

I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for a long while. It's like people. You hang out with them for 10 years, and then all of a sudden they do something, and you say, 'Who are you?' That's more interesting. In life and on-screen.

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

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.'

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.

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 believes that, but sometimes it feels that way.

When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.