John Hawkes quotes

People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on. (John Hawkes)
I do all kinds of roles - nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho - and occasionally someone kind of normal. It's weird, when I lived in Austin I was always cast as pretty normal people. But when I moved to Los Angeles I was immediately branded a psycho.
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I don't mean to be highfalutin about it, but I try to limit my visibility.
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It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.
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It's hard to get concert tickets.
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My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.
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I met Robert Rodriguez working on a movie called 'Roadracers.'
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I want people to believe me when I play a part and they are less apt to if they know a lot about me and have associations about me.
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I generally play strong people and scary people.
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I don't have actor training, myself.
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For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way. (John Hawkes)
Even the small amount of infamy I have makes me uncomfortable - on a personal level and on a professional level.
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Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.
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I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to be a different kind of television show.
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I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.
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I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.
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A lot of times, you just don't get the jobs you want to get.
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I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do.
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!
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As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.
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You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help. (John Hawkes)
Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.
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Part of the way that I work is to observe.
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I think we're all mysteries to ourselves.
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I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.
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