Ethan Hawke Quotes

• 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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• There’s something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.

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

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  Tags in Analogy, Comparison, Singing

• When you start becoming really successful, the demons start to tempt you – the demons of vanity and self importance, drug abuse, the feelings of fraudulence. But, it’s also a thrill. That’s what I found weird.

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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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• When you do ‘Before Sunset,’ you know while it’s a limited audience, there was a very small group of people that love ‘Before Sunrise.’ You feel a certain pressure to make sure that you uphold a level of quality that has been a bar. You set a bar and you have to at least match it.

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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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• 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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• If you’re not a real chameleon of an actor and if you’re not one of those guys who can really shape-change themselves all the time, one of the ways to keep pushing yourself and keep changing is to be in different kinds of movies.

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• I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a dangerous path to be walking on as far as having a substantive life. Because the casualty rate at the Venice Film Festival for 18-year-olds? High.

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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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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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