Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another. — John Hawkes Experience Copy Share Image
I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything. — John Hawkes Darkness Copy Share Image
You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help. — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way. — John Hawkes Actors Copy Share Image
It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that. — John Hawkes Actor Copy Share Image
I guess you can say that every actor is a 'character actor' on some level. But I think some actors have a… — John Hawkes Actor Copy Share Image
When I over-prepare, I try to let it all go and forget all about it when the camera rolls, so I can… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if… — John Hawkes Actor Copy Share Image
The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness,… — John Hawkes Barbs Copy Share Image
I understand why people achieve a level of fame and disappear, I never understood it before, but it's an attractive prospect to… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
When something gets attention so quickly, people sometimes will look for reasons to find fault and tear it down. — John Hawkes Attention Copy Share Image
When you're just starting out, and someone you think is a real storyteller says something good about you, that helps. — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
Being a kid, as all kids do, you feel out of place or like kind of a freak. You wake up feeling… — John Hawkes Being Copy Share Image
In the time between when you first read a script and are offered the role and the time when you begin to… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over,… — John Hawkes Actor Copy Share Image
“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects,… — John Hawkes Amazing people Copy Share Image
I do all kinds of roles - nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho - and occasionally someone kind of normal. It's weird,… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
I'm just looking for the best story being told by the best people and the best part that I can find. If… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
Some friends of mine bothered me for a long time about getting on the social networking pages. They were close friends that… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
I think we've all been misled, at moments in our lives, certainly in school situations, and things like that, with getting with… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
“One and all they are driven by the twin engines of ignorance and willful barbarism. You nod, you also are familiar with… — John Hawkes Ignorance Copy Share Image
“You don't even have a cross," he said. His beloved was silent. "You don't even have any candles, no face of Christ,… — John Hawkes Death Copy Share Image
“The birds do not sing, clouds remain of rubber, glass, steel. A stone has lodged in the engine block, the process of… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured. — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
I don't mean to be highfalutin about it, but I try to limit my visibility. — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
I lived in Texas for 10 years. There were a lot of people chewing, including my dad. — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
