John Hawkes Quotes
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It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that.
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I generally play strong people and scary people.
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In the time between when you first read a script and are offered the role and the time when you begin to shoot, I really love putting in the time and work on that and getting a solid backstory to a character and researching all that I can about what that person does for a vocation or their upbringing or where they're from.
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I understand why people achieve a level of fame and disappear, I never understood it before, but it's an attractive prospect to walk away from it all.
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Being a kid, as all kids do, you feel out of place or like kind of a freak. You wake up feeling like your head got put onto someone else's body that day.
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If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending.
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I think we're all mysteries to ourselves.
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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.
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I don't mean to be highfalutin about it, but I try to limit my visibility.
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I don't really try to judge any character that I play, afterwards I figure it out, but while I'm working on the character, I have to find something in them to relate to.
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I don't have actor training myself.
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I guess you can say that every actor is a 'character actor' on some level. But I think some actors have a wider range. I think that's how you get that mantle.
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My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.
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I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.
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When you're just starting out, and someone you think is a real storyteller says something good about you, that helps.
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Hitchhiking was such a pure form of existence. You'd wake up in the morning, and you'd have no idea what your day was going to be. And that's something I've never been able to shake. I loved that.
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It's probably odd for someone to read an interview where the interviewee is worried about exposure while they're talking in an interview.
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It's hard to get concert tickets.
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Part of the way that I work is to observe.
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You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help.
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Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.
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When something gets attention so quickly, people sometimes will look for reasons to find fault and tear it down.
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Some friends of mine bothered me for a long time about getting on the social networking pages. They were close friends that I liked to mess with, and I think that I kind of enjoyed for a while that it bothered them so much. Now they've just kind of given up.
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For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.