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Ethan Hawke, born on November 6, 1970, is an American actor, director, and screenwriter. He is known for his performances in films such as 'Before Sunset', 'Boyhood', and 'Night Train', for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor.

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Famous Ethan Hawke Quotes

“You need to be a good screen partner. It's very meaningful to me to be a part of great acting performances.”

Acting Meaningful Very Mean

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“Friends can hurt you, but the possibility of pain with lovers is so much greater because your expectations are so high. You don't ask as much of your friends.”

Pain Hurt Possibility Lovers Expectations

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“Give your heart to everybody you meet. The rest is pretense.”

Giving Heart Pretense

Book:Ash Wednesday: A Novel

Source: Ash Wednesday: A Novel

“I'm magically delicious.”

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“I take pleasure in the little things. Double cheeseburgers, those are good, the sky ten minutes before it rains,the moment your laugh turns into a cackle. And I sit here, and smoke my Camel straights, and I ride my own melt.”

Littles Moments Turns My Own Pleasure Laughing Sky Minutes Ten Rain Smoke Little Things Camels Cheeseburger

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“Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.”

Ifs World Trying Dream Kids Growing Up Odd Your Dreams Adulthood Offended Follow Your Dreams Chase Your Dreams Childhood Dreams Encouragers

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“If you can channel the best part of you that is bigger than yourself, where it’s not about your ego and not about getting ahead, then you can have fun and you aren’t jealous of others. You see other people's talent as another branch of your own. You can keep it rooted in joy. Life is long and there are plenty of opportunities to make mistakes. The point of it all is to learn.”

People Ifs Long Life Is Joy Opportunity Fun Mistake Talent Ego Bigger Plenty Having Fun Branches Making Mistakes Jealous Rooted

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“Success isn't measured by what you achieve, it's measured by the obstacles you overcome.”

Success Achieve Overcoming Obstacles

Book:Ash Wednesday

Source: Ash Wednesday

“With this sunrise somehow I felt I was exactly where I was supposed to be... Have faith, the light seemed to announce.”

Light Felt Supposed To Be Have Faith Sunrise

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“When I woke up I was naked. I have this one oddball idiosyncrasy: Sometimes in my sleep I take off all my clothes.”

Sometimes Sleep Clothes Naked Idiosyncrasies Oddballs

Book:Ash Wednesday: A Novel

Source: Ash Wednesday: A Novel

“If you don't give inspiration an opportunity, it will never arrive.”

Ifs Giving Inspiration Opportunity

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“Everything is so finite but that’s what makes our time and specific moments so important.”

Important Moments Our Time Finite

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“There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.”

Life Is Knowing Finite

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“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.”

Want Long Humanity Turns Term Loss Economic Gains Environmental Long Term Temporary

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“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.”

Ifs Knows Long Important Matter Used Three Hours Happened Minutes Subjects Used To Be Epic Subject Matter

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“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.”

Kind Faces Speak Steps Tests Forgiving Screens Circles Nervous Keep Going Wire Forgive Yourself Mics

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“I can't tell you how many times in the '90s I'd meet somebody, we'd be having a nice time, and they'd sigh and go, 'This is exactly like Before Sunrise.' And I'd have to get up and leave.”

I Can Nice Get Up Sunrise Sigh Nice Time Before Sunrise

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“There is no trick to writing a believable love story, a heartbreaking scene or real-sounding dialogue. All you need is to tell the truth. It’s always heartbreaking.”

Needs Writing Real Stories Scene Tricks Love Story Dialogue Telling The Truth Heartbreaking Believable

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“Happiness is in the doing not in getting what you want.”

Want Happiness What You Want Getting What You Want

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“We all have this fantasy of finding our one true love who's going to be the perfect fit. It's just not a reality.”

Reality Perfect Fantasy Fit Findings One True Love Perfect Fit

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“Directing is like putting together a collage.”

Together Collages

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“Read. It makes you more intelligent. It’s that simple. We all see the universe through the tiny keyhole of our own eyes, and every book is another keyhole from which you can gaze.”

Book Eye Universe Simple Intelligent Tiny Keyholes

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“The Woodstock Film festival is among the finest of a dying breed: a festival that isn’t trying to sell you anything, but simply and beautifully celebrating the art & craft of filmmaking.”

Trying Art Film Dying Sells Celebrate Crafts Filmmaking Finest Festivals Film Festivals Woodstock

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“Depression is a real demon in the woods for a lot of creative people, you know? It's part of what the documentary is trying to be about for me, finding balance, where the beauty that is attainable in the creative arts can be matched with the scratchy roughness of regular life.”

People Knows Trying Art Real Creative Balance Findings Woods Demon Documentaries Creative People Creative Art Matched Roughness

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“I've always watched actors on the red carpet getting drunk and making idiots of themselves and now I'm happy to join their ranks”

Actors Red Drunk Idiot Carpet Red Carpet Getting Drunk

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“Its difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesnt matter if youre 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.”

Ifs Wells Kind Matter School Film Difficult Talking New York Vampire Supposed To Be Genre Dawn Old School Vampire Movie Throwback

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“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.”

People Knows Kind Persons Humor Inspiration Struggle Mets Insight

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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.”

Ifs Thinking Ends Matter Father Walks This Life Irrelevant

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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.”

Years Age Film Fun Path Taken Dangerous Walking Presses Rate Agents Festivals Venice Casualties Film Festivals

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“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.”

Horror Messages Entertainment Genre Sci Fi Subversive

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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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“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.”

Men Want Trying Kind Problem Life Is Father Process

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“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.”

People Stars Figures International Movie Star Best Work Burn Out

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“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.”

Ifs Actors Drama Right Now Dramatic

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“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.”

Kind Self Stuff Perfection Hollywood Obsession Our Society Neurosis Loathing Self Loathing

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About the Author

Born: November 6, 1970
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 185

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