47 Quotes by Gene Hackman

Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.

If I start to become a star, I'll lose contact with the normal guys I play best.

My early days in Broadway were all comedies. I never did a straight play on Broadway.

Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.

My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.

Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn.

I got fired, I think, because I just didn't fulfill the director's and the writer's idea of what the part should've been. In rehearsals, I do a lot of searching around, I try not to perform and I really feel confident in what I'm doing. I mean, you can go first day and perform and probably won't go further than that. But the way that we were all trained in the Fifties and Sixties, you needed to keep searching and so, I was doing that, and they decided that I was just taking too much time.

You have a powerful weapon working for you. For you there is no tomorrow and that makes you all very dangerous people!

I'm not a sentimental guy.