Ethan Hawke Quotes

What I learned about acting, from my experiences directing, is why so many producers and directors don't like actors. You go through all of this work securing a location, figuring out how to get electricity there, how to get trucks parked where they need to be, and where catering is going to come from. And if the actors don't come up with some magic, it actually didn't matter. That creates a lot of animosity towards the actors.

Ethan Hawke

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• Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Sea
  • Generation
  • Leave

• I don't let other people tell me what to do. Well, unless it's my mum.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • People
  • Me
  • Tell

• I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Live
  • Real

• Gandalf the Grey was always the guy I prefer. Gandalf the White was driven to do a particular job, whereas Gandalf the Grey is a bit more humane.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Job
  • Guy
  • Always

• Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Life
  • Death
  • Political

• We have a lot of talented people in this Congress, and we can avoid a lot of unintended consequences if we just included them.

  

  Dan Webster
  • People
  • Just
  • Consequences

• I'm not superstitious.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Superstitious

• Standing up to Ahmadinejad is not a partisan issue and should never be one.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Up
  • Never
  • Should

• For my own health, I thought it was better to eat a plant based diet. I'm going to be 60 soon and I have boundless energy and I feel really good, so I'm all for it.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Good
  • Energy
  • Health

• The barrier to entry, to being a model, is not hard work. You don't need a degree. You don't need to win an award. It's just about how you look.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Work
  • Model
  • Win

• I don't believe in luck. Not in golf, anyway. There are good bounces and bad bounces, sure, but the ball is round and so is the hole. If you find yourself in a position where you hope for luck to pull you through, you're in serious trouble.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Bad

• That's one of the things I love about being a songwriter first, last and always, because whether I do it or not, if someone does a great job on it, my work is done.

  

  Carole King
  • Work
  • Great
  • Done

• I don't see much point in doing things for a pure joke. Every now and then you need a joke, but not so much as the people who spend all their lives constructing joke palaces think you do.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • People

• I got what I have now through knowing the right time to tell terrible people when to go to hell.

  

  Leslie Caron
  • People
  • Time
  • Hell

• My first date was with a girl named Cessi. We'd had a beautiful relationship over the phone all summer long. Then she came home and we met to go out for the first time to the movies. When I saw her I was petrified. I couldn't even look her in the eye to talk to her.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Time
  • Long
  • Home

• Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.

  

  Jay-Z
  • People
  • Done
  • Fear

• It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.

  

  Susan Howatch
  • Author
  • Page
  • Entertain

• A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Movie
  • Actors
  • Messages

• There's a pressure on actors to get somewhere before it's over. But everyone wants longevity, don't they? It's a career. Why be that flash-in-the-pan, taking every job out of worry it'll soon be over?

  

  Ruth Negga
  • Worry
  • Actors
  • Jobs

• I wish not merely to be called Christian, but also to be Christian.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Wish
  • Christian
  • I Wish

• Father of four. I like the sound of that.

  

  Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark
  • Father
  • Sound
  • Four

• What I learned about acting, from my experiences directing, is why so many producers and directors don't like actors. You go through all of this work securing a location, figuring out how to get electricity there, how to get trucks parked where they need to be, and where catering is going to come from. And if the actors don't come up with some magic, it actually didn't matter. That creates a lot of animosity towards the actors.

  

  Ethan Hawke
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