47 Quotes by Gene Hackman

Five players on the floor functioning as a single unit: team, team, team-no one more important than the other.

I was trained to be an actor, not a star.

Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. (as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994)

Don't piss in my ear and tell me it's raining.

That's the great thing about plankton. It pretty much keeps to itself.

Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute.

I don’t trust air I can’t see.

Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than life - that's exciting.

Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance.