Ethan Hawke Quotes
My goal is to tell good stories. And to try as best I can to do something new with acting. To learn from the past and to be a relevant artist. To make stories that are interesting and contemporary and to tell some kind of emotional truth.
Quotes to Explore
-
It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
-
Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So sometimes I'm shooting an episode and don't even know how it's going to end because I haven't read that yet.
-
Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
-
I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.
-
I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
-
Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.
-
I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.
-
Know ye not that the end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered?
-
Theories are only verified hypotheses, verified by more or less numerous facts. Those verified by the most facts are the best, but even then they are never final, never to be absolutely believed.
-
I ate cucumbers and saltines - not because I wanted to look a certain way, but because I was so sad my appetite disappeared.
-
I took on the math-intensive art form of holography and, in my early 20s, traveled the world, living on university fellowships to pursue this esoteric craft. I didn't date much, really - perhaps because I didn't have many hormones, though I didn't know that at the time.
-
All generalizations are false, including this one.
-
When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
-
I want to be Willy Wonka. He has a really fun spirited side but also a dark, justice-giver side.
-
America's parenting customs can shock foreigners.
-
Nathaniel Hawthorne says, 'Easy reading is damn hard writing.' I try to pull the language into such a sharpness that it jumps off the page. It must look easy, but it takes me forever to get it to look so easy.
-
Those who are seeking ways to tap into the potential of e-mail will find themselves in a position to capitalize on the pending explosion in Internet usage.
-
Between the two men, somewhere, a truth is lying, and that is what I try to find.
-
When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
-
Some Saian mountaineerStruts today with my shield.I threw it down by a bush and ranWhen the fighting got hot.Life seemed somehow more precious.It was a beautiful shield.I know where I can buy anotherExactly like it, just as round.
-
You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people.'' One class is no better than another. It must be a case of Wisdom, or Truth. Let the working classes be working classes. That is the truth. There must be an aristocracy of people who have wisdom, and there must be a Ruler: a Kaiser: no Presidents and democracies.
-
My goal is to tell good stories. And to try as best I can to do something new with acting. To learn from the past and to be a relevant artist. To make stories that are interesting and contemporary and to tell some kind of emotional truth.
