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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Rumours are a part and parcel of being an actor, and I am okay with that.
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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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Snow Cake is a lovely film. Really proud of that. We shot it in 21 days. I thought Sigourney was amazing in it. And very, very accurate. I think there was some element that thought she had pushed it too far. But not at all when you do the amount of homework she had done and spent the amount of time she did with adult autistics. She was right on the money. And I think Marc Evans is a terrific director. He's a sweet, open, honest man and a really good director of actors.
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There is a lot of sixties-bashing going on these days that I don't agree with at all. I feel that extremely important ideals were brought to the forefront of the collective consciousness at that time. Granted, drug use was so pervasive that our generation did not as a group have the capacity to manifest our ideals to any great extent. But many of the people who were young in the sixties and who were most touched by that collective ethos are still touched.
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A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic harmony.
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My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.
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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.
