Ethan Hawke Quotes
Often you see a famous actor who says they produced something, when all they did was claim to have an idea at a dinner party and make three phone calls.
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.
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I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.
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After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.
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The lifestyle that comes with being an actor in a successful TV show isn't something I gravitate toward.
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You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.
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I'm a terrible actor. I would suck in films! The only way I would do well is if I was playing myself, which is what I did in my career.
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I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.
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While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.
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If I'd had the choice when I was 14, and someone had said to me, 'You can either be a footballer or an actor,' I'd have said: 'Well, can't I be a footballing actor?'
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I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.
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Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film.
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As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.
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As an actor you're used to being the focus of attention.
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They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can't.
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Directing is more comfortable for me because, as an actor, there's always something inherently false. Because I'm not that person.
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We know the history of Hussein, and we know he is a bad actor, ... We know he's had weapons of mass destruction and used them against Iranians and used them against the Kurds in his own country, and he would use them against anybody else, too.
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The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.
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Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
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When you're working on a play like 'Sloane,' that play works; you don't have to worry about that. When you're working on a new play like 'Little Dog,' you have no clue if the play works. You're exploring.
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Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people.
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Often you see a famous actor who says they produced something, when all they did was claim to have an idea at a dinner party and make three phone calls.
