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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

As a young man... you don't know anything about yourself. And add on to that, you're on the cover of magazines. People are interviewing you about what you think. You feel like a real phony. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#add #anything #cover #feel #interviewing

At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we invariably choose the money. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#choose #economic #environmental #every #gain

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 don't know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic - a movie about Gandhi; something with very important subject matters. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#because #epic #every #gandhi #happened

I kill flies, I eat meat, you know, whatever. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#flies #i #kill #know #meat

I think that if you walk through this life and I end up being a bad father, then it won't matter anything else I achieved in my life. It will all be irrelevant. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#anything #bad #being #else #end

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

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