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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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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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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A woman at the Limited once asked me, 'Why do you work?' She said, 'You made a lot of money as a young man, so why are you still working?' I had never thought about it before. Forced to consider it, I told her, 'You know why? Because I think that if you stop to smell the roses, you'll get hit by a truck.'
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There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.
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I honestly believe that you have to be able to play the guitar hard if you want to be able to get the whole spectrum of tones out of it. Since I normally play so hard, when I start picking a bit softer my tone changes completely, and that's really useful sometimes for creating a more laid-back feel.
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I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.
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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
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Soy sauce and seaweed go really well with potato chips.
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You deserve to live. You deserve to be alive.
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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.
