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John Hawkes Quotes

I lived in Texas for 10 years.

– John Hawkes

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

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

For me and for I’m sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.

– John Hawkes

A lot of times, you just don’t get the jobs you want to get.

– John Hawkes

‘The New York Times’ thing… I think any actor would be thrilled to be profiled in that paper.

– John Hawkes

I met Robert Rodriguez working on a movie called ‘Roadracers.’

– John Hawkes

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

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

There’s a lot of skeletons in my closet!

– John Hawkes

Starting in the mid-’80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.

– John Hawkes

I don’t mean to be highfalutin about it, but I try to limit my visibility.

– John Hawkes

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

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

Part of the way that I work is to observe.

– John Hawkes

I don’t have actor training myself.

– John Hawkes

I went to a performance of ‘The Crucible’ at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that’s what I wanted to do.

– John Hawkes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When you’re just starting out, and someone you think is a real storyteller says something good about you, that helps.

– John Hawkes

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

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

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

You never really forget who you are. If you did, you’d need to seek some professional help.

– John Hawkes

I generally play strong people and scary people.

– John Hawkes

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