It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and… — Gene Hackman Copy Share Image
You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, 'Why didn't I… — Gene Hackman Copy Share Image
My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the… — Gene Hackman Copy Share Image
It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I… — Gene Hackman Copy Share Image
I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to… — Gene Hackman Copy Share Image
Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy. — Gene Hackman Copy Share Image
You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, 'Why didn't I choose something… — Gene Hackman Copy Share Image
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… — Gene Hackman Copy Share Image
Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. (as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994) — Gene Hackman Copy Share Image
I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine. — Gene Hackman Copy Share Image
