Ethan Hawke Quotes

I have a daughter and the thing I wish for her is not love, fame, money or anything like that. It's just one great best friend. You know, if you have somebody that has your back, you're gonna be all right.

Ethan Hawke

• Money
• Love
• Daughter
• Best Friend

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• I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
  • Stage
  • Flow

• For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Long
  • Son
  • Rights

• You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Bad
  • Playing
  • Started

• I'm a serial monogamist.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Serial

• I'm very lucky.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Lucky
  • Very

• People can be slave-ships in shoes.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • Shoes

• Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Men
  • Love
  • Marriage

• I know enough of the family life of officers. I scarcely know my own children or they me.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• The role of my agent has just been to get me in the room. If I can get in the room - say the character is just a charming man who lives next door - then I'll walk in there and be as charming as I can and they will think to themselves, 'I don't see why we can't cast him.'

  

  Idris Elba
  • Why
  • Character
  • Man

• I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a point where it's almost meaningless.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Nice

• The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Art
  • War
  • Simple

• I want my world to be fun. No parents, no rules, no nothing. Like, no one can stop me. No one can stop me.

  

  Justin Bieber
  • World
  • Fun
  • Parents

• I went out for a film where they wanted seven brothers and one sister, so I was there for half a day while they were waiting for 'Archie' to read for a boy... I've had drivers come to pick me up in England looking for a blond, blue-eyed Scottish boy.

  

  Archie Panjabi
  • Up
  • Waiting
  • Boy

• My heroes would never let me down; they never have. I've never been disappointed by any of them.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders

• I don't vote.

  

  Jason Pierre-Paul

• Sometimes if you don't take the easy option, it'll pay dividends in the long run.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Long
  • Option

• I directed the next-to-last episode of 'Parenthood.' I wrote three of the four last episodes. I had the cast to my house. Had a champagne toast with the writers. Had a huge cast and crew party. Drank eggnog in the camera truck after we wrapped the final day. All that, and I don't really feel like I've said good-bye to 'Parenthood.'

  

  Jason Katims
  • Good
  • House
  • Party

• Will not stop being Victor Manuelle and I will find a balance between keeping the audience animated and trying to keep being me.

  

  Victor Manuelle
  • Balance
  • Audience
  • Being Me

• By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • You
  • Hands
  • Clock

• Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Women
  • Love
  • Relationship

• How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Love
  • Hope

• We are today engaged in a war. It is an economic war over our sovereignty as human beings with inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The “pursuit of happiness” means the right to create wealth through our labor and to enjoy the fruits thereof. The battle now is over who has the moral, the ethical, and the legal right to the fruits of our labor. Are we to be free, or are we to be slaves? Just whose money is it anyway?

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Money
  • Happiness
  • Human Beings

• I have a daughter and the thing I wish for her is not love, fame, money or anything like that. It's just one great best friend. You know, if you have somebody that has your back, you're gonna be all right.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Money
  • Love
  • Daughter