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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

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

Some people burn out, and some people like Clint Eastwood, he was a wild, international movie star in his 30s, and he's doing the best work of his life now. Go figure. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#best work #burn #clint #clint eastwood #doing

There's some kind of actors that can radically change who they are from movie to movie. I've never really been that kind of actor. I enjoy changing the worlds that I'm in. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#been #change #changing #enjoy #i

To get to be somebody who gets to love what they do for a living, that's so rare, and so there must be some kind of price you have to pay. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#gets #kind #living #love #must

We live in a funny time. If you don't go corporate, you can't compete. You're relegated as irrelevant. People used to admire that. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#compete #corporate #funny #go #irrelevant

When you do 'Before Sunset,' you know while it's a limited audience, there was a very small group of people that love 'Before Sunrise.' You feel a certain pressure to make sure that you uphold a level of quality that has been a bar. You set a bar and you have to at least match it. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#bar #been #before #certain #feel

When you start becoming really successful, the demons start to tempt you - the demons of vanity and self importance, drug abuse, the feelings of fraudulence. But, it's also a thrill. That's what I found weird. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#also #becoming #demons #feelings #found

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#any #economic #effect #enough #even