125 Quotes by John Hawkes

It’s tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that.

If you’re telling a story it’s always best not to play the ending.

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

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.

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.

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

No appetite. No sensation in a dry stomach. No desire. No orchids sweet enough to taste. Not the sort of woman to eat sandwiches on a bus. At least not the sort of woman who would eat in the dark. Not anymore.

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.

There’s a lot of skeletons in my closet!