Ethan Hawke Quotes
Well, there's a great Marlon Brando quote that to do something well you have to spiritually marry your director. You have to be making the same movie they are in that you have to try to help their imagination be better, and more full, and more fully realized, but you can't have a different imagination because then you end up - and you see this a lot in movies - where it feels like they were making five different films.
Quotes to Explore
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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
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Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.
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It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he took great pride in his technique as a rhythm guitarist.
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I started out doing musicals.
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I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.
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My mom is super fabulous, and I remember her telling me at 13, 'You can start wearing makeup now.' And the funny thing is, I didn't take her up on it!
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Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
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I grew up partially around Stone Mountain, Georgia, and in that part of the country, there was always this aura of mythology and palpable sense of otherness about being a Southerner.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
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I went from working with Spielberg to working with Clint Eastwood - I might as well just retire.
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I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.
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I don't like looking outrageous.
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Otherwise it was quiet-that eerie, not-quite-comforting quiet one finds in small towns before dawn.
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I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
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I really believe God called on me to coach, and that is the reason I stayed in it for so long.
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I'm a Pisces, so I'm a very closed-book kind of person.
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I always say to people that you have never seen the best of me, and that's what I mean - I've never been fully fit.
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Any human act that gives rise to something new is referred to as a creative act, regardless of whether what is created is a physical object or some mental or emotional construct that lives within the person who created it and is known only to him.
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Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.
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I've done enough films to know how to save up my energy for the take and then give it on the take and do that.
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Well, there's a great Marlon Brando quote that to do something well you have to spiritually marry your director. You have to be making the same movie they are in that you have to try to help their imagination be better, and more full, and more fully realized, but you can't have a different imagination because then you end up - and you see this a lot in movies - where it feels like they were making five different films.
