#kin

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#divisions #entire #government #i #inhabit

I kind of got my big break with 'The Princess Diaries' and during the press rounds for that everyone asked me: 'Did you always want to be a princess growing up?' And the truth was, no I wanted to be Catwoman. ↗

— Anne Hathaway

#asked #big #big break #break #diaries

It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#also #experience #first #human #human nature

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing. ↗

— Vance Havner

#leads #more #surely #talking #than

People do get ridiculed for liking us or because they look the way they do and they're a part of what we do. ↗

— Davey Havok

#get #liking #look #part #people

I think it's my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I've learned from the actors I've worked with is you don't get something for nothing. If you don't risk looking foolish, you'll never do anything special. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#foolish #get #i #i think #job

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. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#circle #even #face #fell #forgive

I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#because #did #dug #fiction #i

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

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. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#agent #around #as far as #because #being