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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

#devastated #feel #find #horrified #i

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 The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#lime #made #old #people #them

If I do three movies in a year, I don't feel like acting ever again. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#again #ever #feel #i #i do

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. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#context #doing #elements #going #how

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

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. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#chameleon #changing #different #different kinds #guys

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

— Ethan Hawke

#still #wet #who #you #your

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

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