John Hawkes Quotes

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John Hawkes

Profession : Actor

Birth : September 11, 1959

The only thing I do on a computer is play Texas Hold 'Em, really. Obviously my cell phone is a computer. My car is a computer. I'm on computers every day without actively seeking them out.

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As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling, but there's certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that you're making a movie.

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People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.

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I don't mean to be highfalutin about it, but I try to limit my visibility.

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I generally play strong people and scary people.

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It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.

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For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.

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I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.

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As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

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I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do.

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It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that.

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My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

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I'd said to my sweetheart a couple of days before that the SAG and Spirit Award nomination was amazing and I had no attachment to the Academy Award. I knew I was an underdog so I just decided to sleep through the announcement.

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I met Robert Rodriguez working on a movie called 'Roadracers.'

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I lived in Texas for 10 years.

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I don't have actor training myself.

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When you're just starting out, and someone you think is a real storyteller says something good about you, that helps.

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When I over-prepare, I try to let it all go and forget all about it when the camera rolls, so I can just be present with the other actors and allow what's going to happen to happen without too much preconception.

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When something gets attention so quickly, people sometimes will look for reasons to find fault and tear it down.

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'The New York Times' thing... I think any actor would be thrilled to be profiled in that paper.

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