Ethan Hawke Quotes

• 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.

  Ethan Hawke

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  Tags in Relationship, Reality

• My parents thought all actors were secretly drug addicts, except for Clint Eastwood, whom they admired. But they thought it was very unlikely that I would ever be Clint Eastwood.

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  Tags in Parents, Thought, Actors

• 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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• It was never in my dreams to make my personal life anybody else’s business.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Dreams

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Couple, Difficulty

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

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  Tags in Yourself

• 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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  Tags in New York, Yourself

• In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.

  Ethan Hawke

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Hollywood

• 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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• 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.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Yourself, Understand

• 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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  Topics in Children

  Tags in Wife

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Feeling

• 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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  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Self

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

  Ethan Hawke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Devastated

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Thought

• 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 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Yourself, Famous, Person

• 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

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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