Top 100 Quotes About Hawke
#1. Your development as a person should coincide with your development in all aspects of your life.
Ethan Hawke
#2. That's your pitch to women? Let's get naked?" He snorted. "No wonder your balls are blue.
Nalini Singh
#3. Everyone is saying, "How is it with Ethan Hawke and Selena Gomez?" and I say, "You're forgetting the third star." And they're like, "The car?" It's totally a star.
Courtney Solomon
#4. 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
#5. With this sunrise somehow I felt I was exactly where I was supposed to be ... Have faith, the light seemed to announce.
Ethan Hawke
#6. 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
#7. Time is so much a part of what makes you close to people.
Ethan Hawke
#8. The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.
Ethan Hawke
#9. Ordinary effort, ordinary result ... Luck is the residue of design. Be steadfast. The anvil outlasts the hammer.
Ethan Hawke
#10. 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
#11. You are always in the right place at exactly the right time, and you always have been.
Ethan Hawke
#12. We will not allow to become a political issue in this country the question of Asianisation.
Bob Hawke
#13. Possessions can be, and most often are, a distraction from the real work of a knight's life. A lion doesn't own anything at all, yet we all know his power.
Ethan Hawke
#14. With practice, you build the road to accomplish your goals. Excellence lives in attention to detail. Give your all, all the time. Don't save anything for the walk home.
Ethan Hawke
#15. Everyone has to pay their child support, and no matter if you're a Hollywood actor or anyone else, it's always a little bit more than you want to pay.
Ethan Hawke
#16. 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
#17. People are conditioned to just you know, like, you know we're like little birdies going to the bird feeder you know, or the little cows going to the salt lick. We just like what we've seen before.
Ethan Hawke
#18. One of the things that separates a good genre movie from a bad genre movie, I always think, ironically, is when you care about the people. The dime a dozen ones are where you don't have any awareness of the character.
Ethan Hawke
#19. If someone asks me if I believe in God, I shake my head like I couldn't give a shit, but the truth is, I do. I just don't know what to do about it.
Ethan Hawke
#20. It's difficult to make any kind of action movie that might be unique or worth watching.
Ethan Hawke
#21. My process differs ... my process for a Richard Linklater film is very different than a process for Training Day.
Ethan Hawke
#22. A Garden Is Not Passive. It has its own way of responding to your involvement and commitment to it. When you walk into a garden, you know whether it is loved or not.
Hazel Hawke
#23. 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
#24. Jellyfish," Riaz said, after considering the other inhabitants of the sea. "Seriously, there cannnot be jellyfish changelings."
Hawke turned to look over his shoulder. "What the hell have you been smoking?"
Riaz shruged, his mood undampened. "It was green and leafy.
Nalini Singh
#26. I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.
Ethan Hawke
#28. But the truth is, I've never wanted to be a movie star - and I've been pretty clear about that.
Ethan Hawke
#29. My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality.
Ethan Hawke
#30. Nature's Moods The water is always changing and whenever you look at it you get something back. I'm sure the water isn't aware of me but I'm very much aware of it. Living by the water means constant company.
Hazel Hawke
#31. The best feeling in the world might be when you finish a book and you get to pick out another.
Kira Hawke
#32. And the joy of my job - and it's really true - is that it's constantly evolving and changing.
Ethan Hawke
#33. Remember, a friend does not need you to impress him. A friend loves you because you are true to yourself, not because you agree with him. Beware of grand gestures; the real mettle of friendship is forged in life's daily workings.
Ethan Hawke
#34. If you're not enjoying writing, take a break. Let your passion return. Why should a reader like it if you don't?
Kira Hawke
#35. Simple joys are the great ones. Pleasure is not complicated.
Ethan Hawke
#36. Love how editing makes you more confident with your book ...but also makes you want to set it on fire at the same time.
Kira Hawke
#37. Wisdom is partly innate and partly developed and practised. It's about a lot more than just knowledge: experience, involvement, communication, interaction with people. Wisdom is a way of being.
Hazel Hawke
#38. Sometimes he hated that voice in his brain, the one that slapped him upside the head anytime he got too stupid. Funny, it happened a lot with Sienna.
Nalini Singh
#39. I take pleasure in the little things. Double cheeseburgers, those are good, the sky ten minutes before it rains,the moment your laugh turns into a cackle. And I sit here, and smoke my Camel straights, and I ride my own melt.
Ethan Hawke
#41. Sometimes belief is the reason for liberation; other times, our own conviction prevents our escape. It depends on whether or not you believe God is listening, if you can cling to hope in the gravest of times. Hope is a precious life force within us.
Christopher Hawke
#42. I love working on scripts. I love coming up with ideas about what people would dress like or talk like. I love all that.
Ethan Hawke
#43. 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
#44. Hawke," he said. "That's the word you need to be saying.
Nalini Singh
#45. Males are simple creatures. If we can't f**k it, we want to kill it.
Morgan Hawke
#46. I'd really rather that nobody had a gun, and then nobody would have to worry about it. That would be more my theory. In America, there's this knee-jerk response that more walls and more guns make people safer, and I'm entirely suspect of that way of thinking.
Ethan Hawke
#47. If you study the history of mankind, it seems to be a history of violence. Certainly the history of art, whether you look at paintings or movies or plays or whatever, is just a litany of murder and death.
Ethan Hawke
#48. Pack is built on the bonds of family, of mating, of love. You come first. You always will.
Nalini Singh
#49. I'd be lying if I said I had confidence in every choice I've made, that I have faith in every film I do on every shot.
Ethan Hawke
#50. Success isn't measured by what you achieve, it's measured by the obstacles you overcome.
Ethan Hawke
#51. Women, I believe, learn to think on their feet, to cope with change and survive.
Hazel Hawke
#52. The most creative and most periods of my life that were, had the most growth, were the ones where I was perceived to be failing. Perceived success is a, is really hard 'cause it doesn't really, it's not asking you to grow, see failure is asking you to grow.
Ethan Hawke
#53. When an analogy is really singing, it's what you want it to be.
Ethan Hawke
#54. Understanding that he relies on all that surrounds him, a knight is kind above all.
Ethan Hawke
#55. 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
#56. The Garden Was My Delight. I grew up with gardeners and I just love gardens. I was always very much aware that gardens were important and they were for sharing ...
Hazel Hawke
#58. The truth is that the more you get paid, the less freedom you have. They never pay you for nothing.
Ethan Hawke
#59. As for futuristic costumes, I loved doing 'Gattaca' because I'm a minimalist at heart, and it's a very minimal film. Plus, with Uma Thurman, Ethan Hawke and Jude Law, how could you go wrong?
Colleen Atwood
#60. To head north, a knight may use the North Star to guide him, but he will not arrive at the North Star. A knight's duty is to proceed in that direction.
Ethan Hawke
#61. Women's networks are a necessary part of life. A mixture of empathy and brainstorming can move mountains.
Hazel Hawke
#62. Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work.
Kira Hawke
#63. When I grow old I want to regret the things I've done, not the things I haven't done.
Youngblood Hawke
#64. Now it's different, and to me it was shockingly humble, but there with my girl in my arms and our child in her belly I knew I had reached the moment my life had been waiting for. I was going to be a father and a husband.
I spanked her bottom and cranked up the tunes.
Ethan Hawke
#65. Directing is like putting together a collage.
Ethan Hawke
#66. Is this what she would have wanted, Hawke?" Ronan asked quietly. "Justice at the cost of an innocent man and his child?
Sloane Kennedy
#67. Victoria made a violent sound of protest. "I am not repressed!"
Seht pinched her nipple and watched her resulting shiver. "You have never been spanked or ass-f**ked. I would say that's pretty damned repressed." "Bastard!
Morgan Hawke
#68. Now I have a theory that if a woman wants to keep a man she only needs to say two things: She believes in him and he's got a big a cock. That's all it takes. It doesn't even have to be true.
Ethan Hawke
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. You can't keep wanting to be 20 years old. Everybody knows that, but what's in the next room?
Ethan Hawke
#72. Hello, you've reached the winter of our discontent.
Ethan Hawke
#73. 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
#74. A big cigar was jammed in the corner of his wide mouth. Blue-gray smoke wafted to the ceiling rafters, curling around the big wagon-wheel chandelier like ghostly tendrils.
Kymber C. Hawke
#75. Women who have had more opportunity to develop their own strengths and talents, or who are quite satisfied and content in a traditional role, unfortunately don't always understand that many women aren't satisfied or content.
Hazel Hawke
#76. The journey was a surreal dream. This world was about knowing the person you'd always wanted to be and setting your foot down to it, remembering the person you'd thought you were as a child and rejoicing in its living, breathing actuality.
Christopher Hawke
#77. I remember being a kid and sleeping over at my friend's house and staying up late and watching 'Nosferatu.' Vampire movies are supposed to be secret and bad. They should be rated R.
Ethan Hawke
#78. It's difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesn't matter if you're talking vampire movies or 'Dawn of the Dead' or 'The Thing' or 'Escape From New York.' Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it.
Ethan Hawke
#79. A lot of American actors when they do Shakespeare put on a phoney English accent and it drives me crazy. You're always fighting against the idea that only the British know how to do Shakespeare.
Ethan Hawke
#80. The peregrine falcon is the swiftest, most adept animal I have ever seen. It is worth noting that, like many bird, the falcon's bones are hollow. Travel light.
Ethan Hawke
#81. Expect nothing, and you will enjoy everything!
Ethan Hawke
#82. Hawke's gaze was so innocent, Andrew knew it was pure bullshit
Nalini Singh
#83. The constant buzz and pressure and noise and static of the Internet, and the way it makes young people feel makes it difficult to grow up and develop the way one might want to.
Ethan Hawke
#84. We all have this fantasy of finding our one true love who's going to be the perfect fit. It's just not a reality.
Ethan Hawke
#85. The loneliness within him was like slow decay, and with time it would rot its way into his soul.
R.J. Lewis
#86. It's interesting to work with Emma [Watson] so quickly after Harry Potter. When we shot this movie, it wasn't that long after Harry Potter was finished, and it's knowing that's a big transition in her life. She's a very talented young woman.
Ethan Hawke
#87. A knight sets out to illuminate the darkness in society, not from its leaves but from its roots. This is how justice will be realized. Find the source
Ethan Hawke
#88. Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.
Ethan Hawke
#89. The kindest compliments I have ever heard are when cops tell me Training Day and Assault on Precinct 13 inspired them to become cops. The funniest compliments I have ever heard are when people tell me that 'I love your band Sugar Ray.
Ethan Hawke
#90. And the best films feel like a fist punching you in the solar plexus and all elements of the filmmaking process - the acting, the design, the cinematography, the music, is all working to one end.
Ethan Hawke
#91. Read. It makes you more intelligent. It's that simple. We all see the universe through the tiny keyhole of our own eyes, and every book is another keyhole from which you can gaze.
Ethan Hawke
#92. Drew told me to never, ever talk to him about sex. As far as he's concerned, I'll be a virgin until I'm a hundred, same as Brenna.
Nalini Singh
#93. We passed gas stations and chain food restaurants, with their billboards advertising happiness. I know the images in magazines and on TV aren't true representations of the world; I mean, that's obvious. But I still get this sinking feeling of disappointment, as if it is the world I should see.
Ethan Hawke
#94. Some things suck; they hurt bad. The question is, Do you have the courage to let them?
Ethan Hawke
#95. The only thing I can point to of why I survived is I have a family that loves me and never wanted any money from me.
Ethan Hawke
#97. Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism.
Bob Hawke
#98. It was fantastic to be on the set again with Denzel (Washington) and Antoine (Fuqua) and then to have the situation be so different. We weren't making a sequel to Training Day. We were in the middle of the desert riding around on some horses.
Ethan Hawke
#99. I did this movie, Predestination, and it's one of my favorite movies I've ever made, because sci-fi really lets you talk about ideas in a way that's not pretentious.
Ethan Hawke
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