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Ethan Hawke
American
Actor
Born:
Nov 6
,
1970
Actor
Life
Love
People
Think
You
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The older I get, the more I realize how rare it is to meet a kindred spirit.
Ethan Hawke
Rare
Older
Meet
Kindred
Spirit
More
How
Get
Realize
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
Life
You
Become
Wear
Superficial
About
Understand
Whatnot
Tattoos
Different
Uniform
Realize
Then
Us
Things
Inner
Inner Life
You know, I auditioned for 'Titanic.' Sometimes I muse on what would have happened. That would have been such a different life.
Ethan Hawke
Life
You
Sometimes
Would
Know
Been
Different
Happened
Titanic
Different Life
Muse
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
You
Job
Looking
Nothing
Think
One Of The Things
Something
Risk
Foolish
Never
Learned
Get
Anything
Worked
Special
Actor
Things
The thing that makes a great genre movie is one that's not just entertainment, not just horror or sci-fi or whatever. The ones I love are the genre pictures with some subversive message underlying it all.
Ethan Hawke
Love
Great
Entertainment
Whatever
Some
Horror
Pictures
Message
Genre
Underlying
Sci-Fi
Makes
Just
Movie
Subversive
Thing
There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.
Ethan Hawke
Life
About
Something
Finite
Knowing
Makes
Precious
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
Remember
Sleeping
Late
Secret
Kid
Vampire
Vampire Movies
Bad
Staying
Rated
Over
Supposed
House
Friend
Up
Being
Movies
Should
Watching
In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.
Ethan Hawke
You
Still
Wet
Your
Paint
Who
I kill flies, I eat meat, you know, whatever.
Ethan Hawke
You
Whatever
Eat
Know
Flies
Meat
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
Struggle
People
Met
Kind
Would
About
Seemed
Know
None
Lot
Very
Person
Famous
Famous People
Them
Appealing
Why
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
Woman
People
Difficult
Too
Married
Both
Know
Couple
Ambitious
Very
Any
Just
Movie
Wants
Movie Star
Hard
Who
Star
'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
Life
Job
Tell
Kind
Brooklyn
Finest
Feel
Where
Want
Movie
Stories
Actor
Why
Interpret
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
Faith
Confidence
Made
Every
Lying
Had
Said
Shot
Choice
Film
I have had so many bad auditions.
Ethan Hawke
Bad
Had
Auditions
Many
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.
Ethan Hawke
Love
You
Rare
Somebody
Pay
Living
Kind
Must
Some
Price
Get
Gets
To Love
Who
The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.
Ethan Hawke
Life
Failure
Man
Marriage
Problem
Father
My Life
Kind
How
Trying
Want
Biggest
Process
Biggest Problem
If I do three movies in a year, I don't feel like acting ever again.
Ethan Hawke
Three
Year
Feel
Like
Again
Movies
Acting
Ever
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.
Ethan Hawke
You
Other
Dramas
Dramatic
Some
Making
Going
Just
Being
Interested
Movies
Regular
Many
Now
Actor
Right
Thing
I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.
Ethan Hawke
Thought
Everybody
Smarter
Than
Much
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.
Ethan Hawke
Change
Enjoy
Changing
Worlds
Kind
Some
Never
Been
Movie
Really
Radically
Who
Actor
The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.
Ethan Hawke
Me
Creative
Free
Tools
More
Sharpen
Always
Been
Where
Place
Theater
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
Love
People
Other
Way
Out
Find
Admit
Horrified
Devastated
Feel
Salinger
Same
Just
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?
Ethan Hawke
Love
Me
People
Fall
Only
Around
Truly
Want
Really
Who
Now
Why
Right
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.
Ethan Hawke
You
Car
Addict
Joe
Allen
New
Got
Trump
Crack
Donald
York
Donald Trump
Same
New York
Woody
Woody Allen
Subway
Regular
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.
Ethan Hawke
Life
You
Matter
Walk
Father
Will
My Life
Think
Else
Bad
Through
End
Up
Irrelevant
Achieved
Being
Anything
Anything Else
Then
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.
Ethan Hawke
Science
Kind
Liked
Sci-Fi
Because
Science Fiction
Always
Dug
Did
Fiction
Movie
Really
Oriented
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