Ethan Hawke

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

#become #different #inner #inner life #life

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

#hollywood #kind #lead #neurosis #obsession

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

#allen #car #crack #donald #donald trump

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

— Ethan Hawke

#still #wet #who #you #your

It was never in my dreams to make my personal life anybody else's business. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#business #dreams #else #life #make

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. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#clint #clint eastwood #eastwood #ever #except

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

#been #even #i #just #long

Nothing teaches you like getting leveled. And I got leveled in my early 30s. Nothing went exactly the way I thought it would. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#exactly #getting #got #i #leveled

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

#fall #i #i can #i do #love

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

#being #dramas #dramatic #dramatic actor #going