A biography for Ethan Hawkehasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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.”
“Nothing teaches you like getting leveled. And I got leveled in my early 30s. Nothing went exactly the way I thought it would.”
“When an analogy is really singing, it's what you want it to be.”
“In New York, you've got Donald Trump, Woody Allen, a crack addict and a regular Joe, and they're all on the same subway car.”
“There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I've had a lot of experience in independent film, and about how to choose. You've got to be very discerning about where you put your five bucks, and where you cut and what you don't cut.”
“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.”
“The older I get, the more I realize how rare it is to meet a kindred spirit.”
“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.”
“I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didn't know why I would struggle to be that kind of person.”
“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”
“The girls who like me aren't the ones I like. Or, if I do and they want to commit, I suddenly need tons of time with my friends.”
“The more kind of head trippy sci-fi. I always like that. I was a big 'Twilight Zone' freak.”
“You know, I auditioned for 'Titanic.' Sometimes I muse on what would have happened. That would have been such a different life.”
“If you're not a real chameleon of an actor and if you're not one of those guys who can really shape-change themselves all the time, one of the ways to keep pushing yourself and keep changing is to be in different kinds of movies.”
“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.”