Ethan Hawke Quotes

There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.

Ethan Hawke

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• It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Help

• The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Good
  • Baby
  • Bible

• I've got this reputation for shooting one take which is a wonderful reputation to have but it's hard to live up to.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Up
  • Live
  • Wonderful

• I chose to deal with the underdogs on '1 Train.' I could've got the biggest superstars in the rap game, but why do that when you can let the young boys shine?

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Why
  • Game
  • Rap

• You can't teach it [jazz singing]. There's nobody who can teach you how to sing jazz. Either you know how to sing jazz, or you don't.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Singing
  • Teach
  • Jazz

• The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Sun
  • Clay

• Tis Vanth's cage. You can just move it out of the way." "I already have," he grumbles. "With my shin.

  

  Robin LaFevers
  • Way
  • Moving
  • Cages

• Being a New Jersey native, going down to the shore for my whole life, it's a big thing that out of towners are very much looked down on and there is a real conflict between the locals and the Bennies - people that are out of towners, not from the shore. That's slang going back in the day.

  

  Valerie Estelle Frankel
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• If you're passionate about something, you believe in it, then you have to be consistent. And you have to put in the hard work that it takes to be successful.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Work
  • Believe

• A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Man
  • Fool

• Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

  

  Aristotle
  • Truth
  • Dear
  • Plato

• Let people take death seriously, and not travel far.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Death
  • Travel

• I'm incapable of truly relaxing. I remember when I was younger and less wise or experienced, actors that I knew would always talk about jobs ending and wondering whether they were ever going to work again. Now that's my life.

  

  Joshua Malina
  • Work
  • Wise
  • Relaxing

• When I was in the hospital getting my sex change, I was just wishing I could be a pretty girl working in a mall. If I could have a crystal ball and see what I look like now - you know, modeling, David LaChapelle, hanging out with Daphne Guinness, singing with Lil' Kim, and traveling all over the world, I'd be like, "Wow, I can't believe this."

  

  Amanda Lepore
  • World
  • Believe
  • Girl

• A Fed loan to Lehman Brothers would not have prevented a bankruptcy.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Fed
  • Loan
  • Bankruptcy

• We pursue that which retreats from us.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Desire
  • Pursue
  • Retreat

• There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Life is
  • Finite