Ethan Hawke Quotes

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Ethan Hawke

Profession : Actor

Birth : November 6, 1970

The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.

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We live in a funny time. If you don't go corporate, you can't compete. You're relegated as irrelevant. People used to admire that.

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In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.

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I auditioned for Robert Redford once and I was so starstruck I couldn't even speak. I had a mic wire at a screen test clipped to me and then I got kind of nervous and I paced in a circle and then took a step and tripped and fell on my face. You just have to forgive yourself and keep going on.

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At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we invariably choose the money.

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The thing that makes a great genre movie is one that's not just entertainment, not just horror or sci-fi or whatever. The ones I love are the genre pictures with some subversive message underlying it all.

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I think it's my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I've learned from the actors I've worked with is you don't get something for nothing. If you don't risk looking foolish, you'll never do anything special.

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You know, I auditioned for 'Titanic.' Sometimes I muse on what would have happened. That would have been such a different life.

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The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.

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I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.

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I've had a lot of experience in independent film, and about how to choose. You've got to be very discerning about where you put your five bucks, and where you cut and what you don't cut.

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If my kids are doing well, then my life is going pretty well. And if my kids aren't doing well, it doesn't matter how the other elements of my life are. It's kind of amazing to have a context like that. This is really wonderful.

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My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality.

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I kill flies, I eat meat, you know, whatever.

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As a young man... you don't know anything about yourself. And add on to that, you're on the cover of magazines. People are interviewing you about what you think. You feel like a real phony.

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I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didn't know why I would struggle to be that kind of person.

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It is very difficult for any couple who are married if both people are ambitious. I don't know if it's just too hard to be married to a woman that wants to be a movie star.

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It's difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesn't matter if you're talking vampire movies or 'Dawn of the Dead' or 'The Thing' or 'Escape From New York.' Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it.

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'Brooklyn's Finest,' this is the kind of movie that's why I want to be an actor, to tell real-life stories. This is where I feel my job is, to interpret life.

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I'd be lying if I said I had confidence in every choice I've made, that I have faith in every film I do on every shot.

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