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The older I get, the more I realize how rare it is to meet a kindred spirit.

~Ethan Hawke

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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

Topics: Dawn Dead Difficult Escape Film Genre Get Kind Matter Movies New New York Supposed Talking Thing Those Throwback Understand Vampire Well York You

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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

Topics: Audience Bar Been Before Certain Feel Group Know Least Level Limited Love Make Match People Pressure Quality Set Small Small Group Sunrise Sunset Sure Uphold Very While You

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In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.

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Topics: Paint Still Wet Who You Your

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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.

~Ethan Hawke

Topics: Addict Allen Car Crack Donald Donald Trump Got Joe New New York Regular Same Subway Trump Woody Woody Allen York You

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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.

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Topics: Hollywood Kind Lead Neurosis Obsession Our Perfection Self-Loathing Society Stuff

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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.

~Ethan Hawke

Topics: Circle Even Face Fell Forgive Going Got Had Just Keep Keep Going Kind Me Mic Nervous Once Robert Screen Speak Step Test Then Took Tripped Wire You Yourself

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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

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I think that if you walk through this life and I end up being a bad father, then it won't matter anything else I achieved in my life. It will all be irrelevant.

~Ethan Hawke

Topics: Achieved Anything Anything Else Bad Being Else End Father Irrelevant Life Matter My Life Then Think Through Up Walk Will You I Think

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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.

~Ethan Hawke

Topics: Actor Chameleon Changing Different Different Kinds Guys Keep Kinds Movies Pushing Real Really Themselves Those Time Ways Who You Yourself

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: November 6th, 1970

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