John Hawkes Quotes

As an actor, you don't often get a chance to know exactly the impact of what the audience is seeing, even though you can ask where the frame is. A move that feels tiny can be huge, and vice versa.

John Hawkes

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• I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.

  

  Wendell Wilkie
  • Know
  • Day
  • Lose

• I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this point - playing a part in finding the largest field in the last 40 years anywhere in the world. That's the Bakken field, which I believe will yield 24 billion barrels of oil in the decades to come, maybe more.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • World
  • Believe
  • Done

• I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Up
  • Snow
  • Canada

• Much like anyone with too much time on his or her hands, I feel as though I am the most important person on earth and everything I do is relevant. I say the most charming and inspired things when no one is around.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Important
  • Earth
  • Inspired

• Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Shoulders
  • Fifty
  • Above

• I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in. I remember reading a Robert Bly book of poetry.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Reading

• I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Health
  • Government
  • Care

• I don't really compare any of the characters I play; I try to go into them being very open to what the characters can offer and what I can bring to them and then bring a being to life.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
  • Play
  • Try

• Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don't get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we're almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • World
  • Together

• Beyonce's the only contemporary artist that I really, really idolize.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Artist
  • Only
  • Beyonce

• Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not!

  

  Jack Paar
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Statistics

• The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Life
  • World
  • History

• Call it not vain;-they do not err,Who say, that when the Poet dies,Mute Nature mourns her worshipper,And celebrates his obsequies.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Nature

• Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldiesBe-Bop-A-Lula, Baby What I SayHere comes Johnny singing I Gotta WomanDown in the tunnels, trying to make it pay.He got the action, he got the motionOh yeah the boy can play.Dedication, devotionTurning all the night time into the day.

  

  Mark Knopfler Dire Straits
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Night

• The rottenness comes from within.

  

  Agatha Christie

• A veces hallo tan grande a la miseria que temo necesitar de ella.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I thank the officers of the Minneapolis Police Department, who work hard every day to help people in their most vulnerable moments, keep our communities safe, and build relationships and trust with the public.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • People
  • Work
  • Help

• I answer questions the best I can.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.

• We sell only fresh fruit and vegetables. I sell no saturated fats or anything like that.

  

  David H. Murdock

• The idea of the western, I believe, as people conceive of it, is really an artifact of the Hays Production Code of the '20s and '30s, and it has really nothing to do with the West and much to do with the influence of middle-European Jews who had come out to Hollywood to present to America a sanitized heroic idea of what America was.

  

  David Milch
  • People
  • Believe
  • America

• Some of what these pamphlets [of astrological forecasts] say will turn out to be true, but most of it time and experience will expose as empty and worthless. The latter part will be forgotten literally: written on the winds while the former will be carefully entered in people's memories, as is usual with the crowd.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Forecasts
  • Pamphlets
  • Astrological

• one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Nature
  • Pleasure
  • Thousand

• My secret is I cannot go to bed, I cannot sleep, if my bed is not made before I go to bed. I can leave it unmade in the morning, but I have to remake it before I get into it to sleep.

  

  Kevin Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Morning
  • Sleep
  • Secret

• As an actor, you don't often get a chance to know exactly the impact of what the audience is seeing, even though you can ask where the frame is. A move that feels tiny can be huge, and vice versa.

  

  John Hawkes