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When something gets attention so quickly, people sometimes will look for reasons to find fault and tear it down.
John Hawkes Quotes: When something gets attention so
I'd said to my sweetheart a couple of days before that the SAG and Spirit Award nomination was amazing and I had no attachment to the Academy Award. I knew I was an underdog so I just decided to sleep through the announcement.
John Hawkes Quotes: I'd said to my sweetheart
I don't mean to be highfalutin about it, but I try to limit my visibility.
John Hawkes Quotes: I don't mean to be
I want people to believe me when I play a part and they are less apt to if they know a lot about me and have associations about me.
John Hawkes Quotes: I want people to believe
I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.
John Hawkes Quotes: I don't think there are
My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.
John Hawkes Quotes: My fear now is of
She knew there was enormous penalty for what they had done to her - but she could not conceive of that, did not require that: she only wanted a little comfort, a bit of charity; with the awfulness, the unknowable, removed.
John Hawkes Quotes: She knew there was enormous
It's hard to get concert tickets.
John Hawkes Quotes: It's hard to get concert
People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.
John Hawkes Quotes: People have said unkind things
I met Robert Rodriguez working on a movie called 'Roadracers.'
John Hawkes Quotes: I met Robert Rodriguez working
I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to be a different kind of television show.
John Hawkes Quotes: I have to be careful
It seems like every year Hollywood makes an attempt to retell the Manson story, and I just couldn't be less interested in it. It's not really our crowning achievement as a civilisation. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, but it just bores me.
John Hawkes Quotes: It seems like every year
As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.
John Hawkes Quotes: As an actor, I think
Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.
John Hawkes Quotes: Starting in the mid-'80s, I
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 Quotes: For the last 20 years
I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.
John Hawkes Quotes: I think that no matter
It's much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that they're ill-equipped to solve their problems.
John Hawkes Quotes: It's much more interesting to
It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that.
John Hawkes Quotes: It's tough being an actor
I guess you can say that every actor is a 'character actor' on some level. But I think some actors have a wider range. I think that's how you get that mantle.
John Hawkes Quotes: I guess you can say
If a musician wants to be an actor, everyone thinks that's pretty cool. But if an actor wants to play a song, even if they've been doing it for 40 years, that's bad news.
John Hawkes Quotes: If a musician wants to
Some friends of mine bothered me for a long time about getting on the social networking pages. They were close friends that I liked to mess with, and I think that I kind of enjoyed for a while that it bothered them so much. Now they've just kind of given up.
John Hawkes Quotes: Some friends of mine bothered
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 Quotes: It's nice to sometimes get
It's probably odd for someone to read an interview where the interviewee is worried about exposure while they're talking in an interview.
John Hawkes Quotes: It's probably odd for someone
The birds do not sing, clouds remain of rubber, glass, steel. A stone has lodged in the engine block, the process of rusting has begun. And then darkness, a cold wind, a shred of clothing fluttering where it is snagged on one of the doors which, quite unscathed, lies flat in the grass. And then daylight, changing temperature, a night of cold rain, the short-lived presence of a scavenging rodent. And despite all this chemistry of time, nothing has disturbed the essential integrity of our tableau of chaos, the point being that if design inevitably surrenders to debris, debris inevitably reveals its innate design.
John Hawkes Quotes: The birds do not sing,
Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.
John Hawkes Quotes: Motive is never easy. Sometimes
I'm just looking for the best story being told by the best people and the best part that I can find. If those things add up, I want to be a part of it whether it's a studio film or, more likely in that instance, an independent film.
John Hawkes Quotes: I'm just looking for the
When you're just starting out, and someone you think is a real storyteller says something good about you, that helps.
John Hawkes Quotes: When you're just starting out,
I lived in Texas for 10 years.
John Hawkes Quotes: I lived in Texas for
Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.
John Hawkes Quotes: Certainly I've had the experience
You don't really ever think you're that crazy person you're playing.
John Hawkes Quotes: You don't really ever think
A lot of times, you just don't get the jobs you want to get.
John Hawkes Quotes: A lot of times, you
If the birds sing, the nudes are not far off.
John Hawkes Quotes: If the birds sing, the
I don't really try to judge any character that I play, afterwards I figure it out, but while I'm working on the character, I have to find something in them to relate to.
John Hawkes Quotes: I don't really try to
The only thing I do on a computer is play Texas Hold 'Em, really. Obviously my cell phone is a computer. My car is a computer. I'm on computers every day without actively seeking them out.
John Hawkes Quotes: The only thing I do
When I over-prepare, I try to let it all go and forget all about it when the camera rolls, so I can just be present with the other actors and allow what's going to happen to happen without too much preconception.
John Hawkes Quotes: When I over-prepare, I try
Need I insist that the only enemy of the mature marriage is monogamy? That anything less than sexual multiplicity...is naive? That our sexual selves are merely idylers in a vast wood?
John Hawkes Quotes: Need I insist that the
Even the small amount of infamy I have makes me uncomfortable - on a personal level and on a professional level.
John Hawkes Quotes: Even the small amount of
Hitchhiking was such a pure form of existence. You'd wake up in the morning, and you'd have no idea what your day was going to be. And that's something I've never been able to shake. I loved that.
John Hawkes Quotes: Hitchhiking was such a pure
You don't even have a cross," he said. His beloved was silent. "You don't even have any candles, no face of Christ, no tears. What can I say?"

Then she began to murmur and he was astonished.

"I'm sorry. I will believe in the eternity of souls, I am bereaved. I will see those places where death talks solemnly to the years, where the breakers roll over their sins and their regrets, where the valley of Heaven lies before the crag of immortality, and I will believe my mother has gained peace. I have lost her. Has anyone felt such terrible grief, known that for all earthly time the eyes shall never see, the heart never beat except with her shadow? What an unhappy loss, the candles are gutted, and the face wanes for this immortality. I have lost my mother."

This was her only glimpse of Heaven, and she wept so much that he was afraid. Finally she held his hand. The two brothers fired the cannon at the burial.
John Hawkes Quotes: You don't even have a
I understand why people achieve a level of fame and disappear, I never understood it before, but it's an attractive prospect to walk away from it all.
John Hawkes Quotes: I understand why people achieve
Some time ago I discovered that I could no longer speak aloud or read aloud from a stage, even for the sake of hearing the effect that my writer's voice produced on listeners. Now, curiously, the more I merely try to live, the more reclusive I become, the vainer I am. At last I am as vain as the one who instantly voices his silence inside me.
John Hawkes Quotes: Some time ago I discovered
It's not like every director in every movie is seeking me out by any means, there are a lot of things I'm not suited for, a lot of things I'm not interested in, and a lot of things that directors wouldn't be interested in me for.
John Hawkes Quotes: It's not like every director
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 Quotes: Being a kid, as all
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 Quotes: As an actor you have
One and all they are driven by the twin engines of ignorance and willful barbarism. You nod, you also are familiar with these two powerful components of our national character, ignorance and willful barbarianism. Yes, everywhere you turn, and even among the most gifted of us, the most extensively educated, these two brute forces of motivation will eventually emerge. The essential information is always missing; sensitivity is a mere veil to self-concern. We are all secret encouragers of ignorance, at heart we are all willful barbarians.
John Hawkes Quotes: One and all they are
I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.
John Hawkes Quotes: I don't have any training
I do all kinds of roles - nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho - and occasionally someone kind of normal. It's weird, when I lived in Austin I was always cast as pretty normal people. But when I moved to Los Angeles I was immediately branded a psycho.
John Hawkes Quotes: I do all kinds of
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