Oscar Isaac

I was never much of a singer. I was terrible. It's embarrassing: I was trying to sound like everybody else. I went through a big Cure phase, so I was trying to do that kind of dramatic voice.

The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.

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.

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

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.

Advice? Look at your pay statements.

My family are huge 'Star Wars' fans.

I've been fortunate to be working mostly right out of school. Every year, there was a little something, and it kept the confidence going. It's about confidence and the belief.

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.

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.

A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated.

Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve.