Words matter. These are the best Ethan Hawke Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I have had so many bad auditions.
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.
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.
If I do three movies in a year, I don’t feel like acting ever again.
There’s something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.
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.
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.
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.
Some people burn out, and some people like Clint Eastwood, he was a wild, international movie star in his 30s, and he’s doing the best work of his life now. Go figure.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The older I get, the more I realize how rare it is to meet a kindred spirit.
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.
In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.
Nothing teaches you like getting leveled. And I got leveled in my early 30s. Nothing went exactly the way I thought it would.
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.
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.
When an analogy is really singing, it’s what you want it to be.
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.
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.
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.
I’m horrified to admit that I just love Salinger. I was devastated to find out that other people feel the same way.
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.
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.
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.
It was never in my dreams to make my personal life anybody else’s business.
‘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.
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.
You know, I auditioned for ‘Titanic.’ Sometimes I muse on what would have happened. That would have been such a different life.
The more kind of head trippy sci-fi. I always like that. I was a big ‘Twilight Zone’ freak.
The theater, for me, has always been a place where I’m free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.
I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I’m not.
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.
