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To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#enormous #fish #frightening #just #like

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#good #how #i #immediately #knew

For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change. ↗

— John Hawkes

#amazing #amazing people #attracted #change #character

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. ↗

— John Hawkes

#get #i #life #nice #other

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me. ↗

— John Hawkes

#around #authenticity #being #cliche #complacency

As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling, but there's certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that you're making a movie. ↗

— John Hawkes

#aware #camera #certainly #imagination #life

As an actor, you don't often get a chance to know exactly the impact of what the audience is seeing, even though you can ask where the frame is. A move that feels tiny can be huge, and vice versa. ↗

— John Hawkes

#ask #audience #chance #even #exactly

Being a kid, as all kids do, you feel out of place or like kind of a freak. You wake up feeling like your head got put onto someone else's body that day. ↗

— John Hawkes

#body #day #else #feel #feeling

Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another. ↗

— John Hawkes

#certainly #experience #finding #had #i

Even the small amount of infamy I have makes me uncomfortable - on a personal level and on a professional level. ↗

— John Hawkes

#even #i #infamy #level #makes