Ethan Hawke Quotes

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  If you don’t risk doing something foolish, you’ll never do anything special.

  Ethan Hawke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Special, Foolish

• 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.

  Ethan Hawke

  Topics in Confidence

  Tags in Self

• 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.

  Ethan Hawke

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Self

• If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

  Ethan Hawke

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Yourself, Understand

• 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.

  Ethan Hawke

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Self, Learned, Actors

• 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.

  Ethan Hawke

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Wife

• 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.

  Ethan Hawke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Auditioned, Nervous

• 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.

  Ethan Hawke

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Remember, Childhood

• 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.

  Ethan Hawke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Yourself, Cover, Magazine

• I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm… where you’re together and everybody has clear-cut roles; they have chores, ‘you take care of this’ and you know. But it’s hard.

  Ethan Hawke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Marriage, Place

• ‘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.

  Ethan Hawke

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Brooklyn, Movie, Actor

• 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.

  Ethan Hawke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Yourself, Famous, Person

• 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.

  Ethan Hawke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Self, Famous, Meet

• 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.

  Ethan Hawke

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Question

• 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.

  Ethan Hawke

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Gandhi

• 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.

  Ethan Hawke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Girls, Myself

• 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.

  Ethan Hawke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Couple, Difficulty

• Everyone has to pay their child support, and no matter if you’re a Hollywood actor or anyone else, it’s always a little bit more than you want to pay.

  Ethan Hawke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Everyone, Child, Support

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

  Ethan Hawke

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Self, Think

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

  Ethan Hawke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Thought

Ethan Hawke (53)

Birth:	6th November, 1970
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Director, Novelist, Screenwriter

About

Ethan Green Hawke was born in Austin, Texas, USA. He is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and novelist. In 1995 he starred in the romantic drama Before Sunrise, and later in its sequels Before Sunset and Before Midnight. He also garnered two screenwriting Oscar nominations for co-writing the screenplays of Before Sunset and Before Midnight. In 2001, he played a young police officer in Training Day, for which he received the Academy Award and Screen Actors Guild nominations in the Best Supporting Actor category. He has written two novels include: The Hottest State and Ash Wednesday. His role in several films, including Explorers, Reality Bites, Training Day, Boyhood, and Sinister. He directed two films, including The Hottest State and  Chelsea Walls.

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