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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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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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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I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe.
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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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I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me.
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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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In Australia, getting an audition can be a rarity. There just aren't as many opportunities.
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I must admit that I am not a member of the ugly school. I have a great regard for certain notions of beauty even though to some it is an old fashioned idea. Some photographers think that by taking pictures of human misery, they are addressing a serious problem. I do not think that misery is more profound than happiness.
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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.
