Ethan Hawke Quotes
I've had several moments in my career where it seemed like I might not age out of the bracket the world wants to put you in. It's hard to keep growing up inside the performing arts. It's very difficult, and presents a lot of unique challenges.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that people don't have contemplative time any more. I worry deeply about this. In fact, I worry about everything all the time. I used to be a punk. All I wanted to do was tear everything down, and that was so much easier.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.
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I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
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I care very much what the fans think. I'm starting to loosen my grip on caring about what critics say, because I think that critics care about what fans think of them, too, so there's a little bit of a refraction there, through that glass.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
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Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
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All I really want to do is plays - and that's a New York thing.
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I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
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Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.
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When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.
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I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.
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It gets lonely. I miss my family on stage. This might change one day. I'm certainly not going to say I'm not going to work with them again.
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Businesses that make consumer privacy a point of competitive differentiation will enjoy greater customer loyalty.
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My opinion changes rapidly - one minute I can think it is very good and the next time I look at it, I see all the flaws and weaknesses therein.
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Jersey is always with me. I was one of the lucky ones. Asbury Park is just the greatest place in the world to spend your childhood.
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I don't really look for challenges as much as I like adventures. Other than that I'm just trying to find stories I want to tell.
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I've had several moments in my career where it seemed like I might not age out of the bracket the world wants to put you in. It's hard to keep growing up inside the performing arts. It's very difficult, and presents a lot of unique challenges.
