125 Quotes by John Hawkes

Even the small amount of infamy I have makes me uncomfortable – on a personal level and on a professional level.

For the last 20 years of my life, I’ve had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I’m attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That’s what I’m always searching for and I don’t think that’s ever going to change.

Certainly I’ve had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.

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.

A lot of times, you just don’t get the jobs you want to get.

The corridor smelled of water in the bottoms of purple vases and the piano was banging just beyond this emptiness.

Some time ago I discovered that I could no longer speak aloud or read aloud from a stage, even for the sake of hearing the effect that my writer’s voice produced on listeners. Now, curiously, the more I merely try to live, the more reclusive I become, the vainer I am. At last I am as vain as the one who instantly voices his silence inside me.

I don’t have actor training myself.

I met Robert Rodriguez working on a movie called ‘Roadracers.’