Ethan Hawke Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“When an analogy is really singing, it's what you want it to be.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”