Ethan Hawke Quotes

Alejandro Amenábar has a unique way of approaching movies and thinking about something which was new to me. It was different. I have a lot of respect for him so I just took a gamble.

Ethan Hawke

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• All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have had long careers is that there is a sort of mystery about them. You don't know what they do on Friday nights when they go home from work. You have no clue. You have this sort of fantasy about them.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Work
  • Long
  • Home

• I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.

  

  Larry Bishop
  • Acting
  • Movies
  • Week

• I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Movies
  • Sense
  • Director

• Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride's attendants.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Respect
  • More
  • Bride

• I do hope to be an adult actor. But if it doesn't work out, I've been thinking about doing something in the medical therapy field, chiropractics or something like that. I've always been into the idea of helping people medically, but I can't stand blood or surgery. That freaks me out. So this would be a bloodless way to help people.

  

  Nathan Kress
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Movies
  • Young
  • Influence

• I have grown up watching Bollywood movies, and I would love to act in them.

  

  Navi Rawat
  • Up
  • Love
  • Movies

• There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They has got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• 'What, concretely, is Enlightenment?' 'Seeing Reality as it is,' said the Master. 'Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?' 'Oh, no! Most people see it as they believe it is.' 'What's the difference?' 'The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.

  

  Tyra Banks
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Art

• You have babies at home.  And you have a life.  And if you don't, you have to realize that we're people and that we just need privacy and we need our respect.  And those are things that you have to have as a human being.

  

  Britney Spears
  • People
  • Life
  • Home

• We emerged out of nature, and when we die, we return to nature. We need to know there are forces impinging on us that we will never understand or control. We need to have sacred places where we go with respect, not just looking for resources or opportunity.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Nature
  • Opportunity
  • Respect

• A key to McMaster's thinking is his 1997 book, 'Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Lies that Led to Vietnam.'

  

  Peter Bergen
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Lies

• I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Great
  • Respect
  • Come From

• Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.

  

  May Sarton
  • Respect

• People are giving me more respect.

  

  Christina Ricci
  • People
  • Giving
  • Respect

• There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Respect
  • Soldier

• You must take care of your family, respect the music, and work intensely. Health and family come first, and then you can make much better music.

  

  Andris Nelsons
  • Work
  • Music
  • Family

• People say, write what you know, but it's really, write about what obsesses you. Write about what you're thinking about all the time.

  

  Meg Wolitzer
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• In politics, it's what isn't said that matters.

  

  Tom Holt

• We are always dying, all the time. That's what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a sequenced collection of individualized deaths.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Time
  • Death
  • Dying

• You can look back at anything and wish you'd done something differently.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Done
  • Wish
  • Look

• The purpose of human life is the dissolution of the soul and the revelation of the Spirit.

  

  Ian Gardner
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Purpose

• Alejandro Amenábar has a unique way of approaching movies and thinking about something which was new to me. It was different. I have a lot of respect for him so I just took a gamble.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Thinking
  • Respect
  • Movies