John Hawkes Quotes - Page 2

• I generally play strong people and scary people.

  John Hawkes

  Strong, Play, People

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• I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing.

  John Hawkes

  Workout, School, Sunday

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• The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.

  John Hawkes

  Magnificence, Language, Torment

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• To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.

  John Hawkes

  Ocean, Water, Scary

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• It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth.

  John Hawkes

  Airplane, Males, Female

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• When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship.

  John Hawkes

  Alaska, People, Ships

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• Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year.

  John Hawkes

  Alaska, Years

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• I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.

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  Usa, America, Exile

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• 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

  Thinking, Healthy, Training

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• 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

  School, Crucible, Sophomore

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

  John Hawkes

  Needs, Helping, Forget

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  People, Nerd, Austin

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• Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.

  John Hawkes

  Sometimes, Easy, Motive

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• The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.

  John Hawkes

  Should, Fishes, Barbs

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• 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

  Years, Achievement, Hollywood

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• I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

  John Hawkes

  Men, Film, Grapes

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• 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.

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  Independent, People, Add

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• 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

  Tv Shows, Different, Television

  "EXCLUSIVE: John Hawkes Explains Why He Turned Down The Walking Dead". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. April 18, 2012.

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