John Hawkes Quotes

Even the small amount of infamy I have makes me uncomfortable - on a personal level and on a professional level.

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• The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Lucky

• I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • Character
  • Job

• Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Pretty
  • Die
  • Fire

• I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Loved
  • London
  • WIld

• Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Happy
  • Jesus
  • Leave

• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Opportunity
  • Fruit
  • Seed

• Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Career
  • End
  • Sense

• If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Doing

• It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Inspiration

• Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Wonder
  • Spiritual
  • Practice

• Disney's Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Disney
  • Almost
  • Deeply

• In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Moments
  • Made
  • Quiet

• I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • Technology
  • Challenge
  • Serious

• People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.

  

  B. B. King
  • Small
  • First
  • Guitar

• There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Time
  • Men
  • Law

• In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Years
  • Talking

• More time than not, athletes, specifically fighters, have a 15 or 20-year career, and unfortunately, we end up right where we started when it's over. All we have is maybe a round of applause when we walk in a room - Hey, there's the champ! That's great; I want that, but I've got to have something tangible to show for it, too.

  

  Andre Ward
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I suppose the best comedy shows do have the rock n' roll feeling - if it's a great night, and the roof is raised... yeah, it's a similar feeling, sure.

  

  Dylan Moran
  • Great
  • Night
  • Feeling

• Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Happy

• Before we even consider expanding Medicare, or another program based on its rates, we must reform our Medicare payment system so that it rewards value, not volume, and doesn't disadvantage states like Minnesota that provide high-quality care in an efficient way.

  

  Amy Klobuchar
  • High
  • Quality
  • Value

• That's Quentin. He's an absolute master of his own fate. If he agrees with you, he'll change his mind instantly. If he thinks that he's right, there's no way you can get him to change his mind.

  

  David Carradine
  • Mind
  • Fate

• Even the small amount of infamy I have makes me uncomfortable - on a personal level and on a professional level.

  

  John Hawkes
  • Small
  • Professional