John Hawkes Quotes
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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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People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.
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If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending.
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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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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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I think we're all mysteries to ourselves.
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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 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 have actor training myself.
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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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It's hard to get concert tickets.
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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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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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You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help.
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I don't mean to be highfalutin about it, but I try to limit my visibility.
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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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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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Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.
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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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When something gets attention so quickly, people sometimes will look for reasons to find fault and tear it down.
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You don't really ever think you're that crazy person you're playing.
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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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For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.