John Hawkes Quotes
I do all kinds of roles - nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho - and occasionally someone kind of normal. It's weird, when I lived in Austin I was always cast as pretty normal people. But when I moved to Los Angeles I was immediately branded a psycho.
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I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.
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If you don't like what you do, you're probably dragging your feet.
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Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.
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I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
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Writing is the process of asking the next logical question.
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Unless public officials are wealthy and fund their own campaigns, the only place they can turn to is lobbyists and institutions like labor unions and corporations.
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I've always been drawn to all sorts of genres and all sorts of voices.
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Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or portraying what he knows about other people. On the contrary, the actor may simply be a person who's more willing than others to reveal some truths about himself.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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I do all kinds of roles - nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho - and occasionally someone kind of normal. It's weird, when I lived in Austin I was always cast as pretty normal people. But when I moved to Los Angeles I was immediately branded a psycho.
