Oscar Isaac

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.

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

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

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

How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.

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.

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.

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.

I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.

My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.

I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home.

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