Ethan Hawke Quotes

I've had different opportunities in my life, but I've tried to maintain the spirit of an amateur. Our culture roots everything in the barometer of success and how much money you make. But if you really just aspire to a life in the arts, it's really not a barometer at all.

Ethan Hawke

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• Success
• Spirit
• Opportunities
• Barometer

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• Indians have very good engineering capabilities, and that is why, if an industry focuses on innovation, you will have a far greater chance of success, rather than the model which is based on just being a production machine.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Good
  • Why
  • Success

• I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many readers when it comes to what counts as 'done well.' For me, the most important thing is that the film maintains the spirit of the original book.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Important
  • Book
  • Spirit

• A lot of shows fly under the radar for the first couple seasons and then become successful. It doesn't necessarily have any bearing on the success of the show or how much the network is behind it.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Success
  • Couple
  • Successful

• I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.

  

  Larry David
  • Money
  • Kids
  • Guy

• Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Success
  • Dangerous
  • Copy

• Research indicates that most women want their man to earn more than they do.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Women
  • Money
  • Man

• There are certain times you realize you've got too much money. One was when I started getting bills from the Koi hotel. When I was remodeling the Koi pond, the Koi had to go to the Koi hotel. They ended up staying there for 13 months and I never asked what the bill was.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Up
  • Money
  • Never

• 'God Made Girls' was such a success for me. I'm so blessed to have over half a million downloads on that song. I was the highest-charting new female in 2014, and I couldn't have done that without Big Machine and their support.

  

  RaeLynn
  • God
  • Done
  • Success

• Everybody makes money for a living, but most of us actually do something that has a point, in addition to just making money. We examine and treat patients, we teach students, we draw up contracts and wills, we write for newspapers, magazines, and web sites, we clean floors, or we serve meals.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • Up
  • Money
  • Treat

• I don't mind if someone thinks I'm a sell out. I go to bed happy knowing I do what I do and I'm not doing anything for reasons of money, and if I were trying to pick up chicks, I'm doing a horrible job. And if I wanted to drive awesome cars, I'm doing a really bad job there too.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Trying

• Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.

  

  Ben Carson
  • People
  • America
  • Success

• I know I'm not the 'Indie It Girl' and I'll never have a big breakout, big runaway success. And that's okay.

  

  Kathleen Edwards
  • Success
  • Girl

• I've signed with major labels, and I haven't had any control over the money.

  

  Chuck D
  • Money
  • Control

• I'm terrible at posting regularly; I don't deserve the blog success!

  

  Ashley Madekwe
  • Success

• My mother was a writer. She acted in one film before she decided that Bollywood wasn't good enough for her. My two sisters and I probably learned from her how to get under other people's skin. In contrast, my father was a simple man despite his success at business. He was a people person, and I think that's what led him to join politics.

  

  Anand Mahindra
  • People
  • Good
  • She

• Thank goodness I've saved my money.

  

  Kyle Chandler
  • Money

• To me, success is seeing that justice is done.

  

  John Doar
  • Done
  • Success
  • Justice

• You can spend an extraordinary amount of time raising independent money to do a movie for very little means. I've done it with 'Pawn Sacrifice.'

  

  Edward Zwick
  • Time
  • Money
  • Done

• Anyone who would let Gary Cooper and the entire cast go charging on horseback without first finding out what kind of footing the horses had is nuts and cannot possibly direct a motion picture.

  

  Dick York
  • Picture

• When I lived in London, I worked three jobs and had such long work days.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Work
  • Long
  • London

• The most important thing to Ben and me was starting a family, so as soon as we got engaged, we booked Gurney's in Montauk - which is just a few miles down the beach from our summer home - as our wedding venue a full year and a half out, and then we immediately started trying to get pregnant.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Family

• As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.

  

  Kit Bond
  • Experience

• To me, any character that is conflicted inside as well as outside of themselves is always a better role to play.

  

  Brent Sexton
  • Character

• I've had different opportunities in my life, but I've tried to maintain the spirit of an amateur. Our culture roots everything in the barometer of success and how much money you make. But if you really just aspire to a life in the arts, it's really not a barometer at all.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Money
  • Success
  • Spirit