Ethan Hawke Quotes
Sometimes in the life of an actor you're not getting offered any jobs that speak to you. The trouble with acting is that you're only as good as your opportunities.
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Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.
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Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
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I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the opportunity to go to Britain's Central School of Speech and Drama, and my dad and I had a few tense words about that. He wanted me to go to British drama school.
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Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.
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I'm a vocabulary nerd.
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There's not a lot of pure evil in the world, but it's amazing how little it takes to do great damage.
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I'm a driven person, but I'm also cautious, and I overthink things sometimes.
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Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their consumption - it's not a bottomless pit.
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I feel like a lot of people would quite easily stab you in the back once they get what they want. And you see that in people.
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One Indian-inspired favourite of mine is mashed potato mixed with lemon juice, breadcrumbs, coriander and chilli, shaped into patties, fried and served with chutney and yoghurt.
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I love music in general. It's like girls and their clothes and shoes; when you love shoes, you love shoes. So, for me, I think it's a really dangerous thing to say I'm going to write the best dance song in the world.
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I never set out to be an actor. Again, my mother presented this job by job to me at the time, and if it sounded fun, I would say yes and if it didn't, I would say no. I always knew, since I was 7 or 8 years old, that it was a means to an end and that I wanted to go to college.
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People love telling their stories, even if they're very, very sad ones. People love to communicate and express.
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For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.
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As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.
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I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.
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A newspaper can follow the compulsions, the desires of the readers. Take the English evening newspapers - they are following the readers' desires when they are interested only in the royal family gossip. But even the most objective, serious newspaper in the world designs the way in which the reader could or should think. That's unavoidable.
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Sometimes in the life of an actor you're not getting offered any jobs that speak to you. The trouble with acting is that you're only as good as your opportunities.
