292 Quotes by Ethan Hawke

Justice. There is only one thing for which a knight has no patience: injustice. Every true knight fights for human dignity at all times.

There’s something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.

Everything that’s happening, is happening inside the self. And whatever the self is, it is not William Harding the movie actor or the adulterer. Whatever the self is will not die when your body has worms crawling through your eye sockets.

If you covet fame, if you covet all the superficial accolades, you’re gonna be miserable ’cause you’re never going to get enough praise. If you covet contributing something substantive to movies, music, literature, then you won’t be unhappy.

You are always in the right place at exactly the right time, and you always have been.

I’d really rather that nobody had a gun, and then nobody would have to worry about it. That would be more my theory. In America, there’s this knee-jerk response that more walls and more guns make people safer, and I’m entirely suspect of that way of thinking.

I want to want to try to never waste energy degrading someone else. Also, I want to try not to see life as a competition.

Humility. Never announce that you are a knight, simply behave as one. You are better than no one, and no one is better than you.

It’s difficult to make any kind of action movie that might be unique or worth watching.