I'm definitely someone that's private. I've never been interested in celebrity.

- Oscar Isaac

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

- Oscar Isaac

With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.

- Oscar Isaac

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

- Oscar Isaac

To be able to shut off your emotions drastically, I think that the only way you can do that is if you have some of sociopathic qualities.

- Oscar Isaac

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

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.

- Oscar Isaac

The hardest things to do in any art is to risk failure and put yourself out on the line.

- Oscar Isaac

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

- Oscar Isaac