Ethan Hawke Quotes

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Ethan Hawke

Profession : Actor

Birth : November 6, 1970

I have had so many bad auditions.

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To get to be somebody who gets to love what they do for a living, that's so rare, and so there must be some kind of price you have to pay.

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If I do three movies in a year, I don't feel like acting ever again.

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One of the things that separates a good genre movie from a bad genre movie, I always think, ironically, is when you care about the people. The dime a dozen ones are where you don't have any awareness of the character.

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Some people burn out, and some people like Clint Eastwood, he was a wild, international movie star in his 30s, and he's doing the best work of his life now. Go figure.

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Right now, if you're interested in being a dramatic actor, they're not making that many just regular dramas. Movies have to have some other thing going on.

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I think having nature be a part of people's lives helps all of us see ourselves as part of something larger.

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Nothing teaches you like getting leveled. And I got leveled in my early 30s. Nothing went exactly the way I thought it would.

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I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.

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I don't know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic - a movie about Gandhi; something with very important subject matters.

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There's some kind of actors that can radically change who they are from movie to movie. I've never really been that kind of actor. I enjoy changing the worlds that I'm in.

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I'm horrified to admit that I just love Salinger. I was devastated to find out that other people feel the same way.

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Right now the only people I can really fall in love with are people who don't really, truly want me around. Now why do I do that?

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The girls who like me aren't the ones I like. Or, if I do and they want to commit, I suddenly need tons of time with my friends.

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In New York, you've got Donald Trump, Woody Allen, a crack addict and a regular Joe, and they're all on the same subway car.

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I think that if you walk through this life and I end up being a bad father, then it won't matter anything else I achieved in my life. It will all be irrelevant.

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I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi.

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The more kind of head trippy sci-fi. I always like that. I was a big 'Twilight Zone' freak.

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I remember being a kid and sleeping over at my friend's house and staying up late and watching 'Nosferatu.' Vampire movies are supposed to be secret and bad. They should be rated R.

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When an analogy is really singing, it's what you want it to be.

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