Ethan Hawke Quotes
If you covet fame, if you covet all the superficial accolades, you're gonna be miserable 'cause you're never going to get enough praise. If you covet contributing something substantive to movies, music, literature, then you won't be unhappy.
Ethan Hawke
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I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
J. M. G. Le Clezio
I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.
Forest Whitaker
I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.
Sam Mendes
I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.
Mackenzie Foy
I never went after fame. It fell into my lap.
Caitlyn Jenner
When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.
S. Ansky
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Dag Hammarskjold
I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
Uta Hagen
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
F. Sionil Jose
My daughter's dabbling in showbiz, and she's done a few commercials. She's auditioned for some movies and shows, so I'm letting her pursue that. I'm OK with it.
Candace Cameron Bure
My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'
Sally Field
Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
Samuel L. Jackson
A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits will not make it a better ... ikon. They may make it a worse one.
C. S. Lewis
Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.
C. S. Lewis
Lord, make my way prosperous, not that I achieve high station, but that my life may be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.
Jim Elliot
If you covet fame, if you covet all the superficial accolades, you're gonna be miserable 'cause you're never going to get enough praise. If you covet contributing something substantive to movies, music, literature, then you won't be unhappy.
Ethan Hawke
