If you covet fame, if you covet all the superficial accolades, you're gonna be miserable 'cause you're never going to get enough praise. If you covet contributing something substantive to movies, music, literature, then you won't be unhappy. — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial. — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
If you study the history of mankind, it seems to be a history of violence. Certainly the history of art, whether you look at… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
To be married to another famous person was a huge pressure, one I didn't enjoy. And it had nothing to do with her. She's… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
Friends can hurt you, but the possibility of pain with lovers is so much greater because your expectations are so high. You don't ask… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
If you don't risk doing something foolish, you'll never do anything special. — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
Most of us float with the river and there are a few people who move the river. Robert DeNiro is definitely one of them. — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
Often you see a famous actor who says they produced something, when all they did was claim to have an idea at a dinner… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
I think that if you walk through this life and I end up being a bad father, then it won't matter anything else I… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
There is no trick to writing a believable love story, a heartbreaking scene or real-sounding dialogue. All you need is to tell the truth.… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
There's some kind of actors that can radically change who they are from movie to movie. I've never really been that kind of actor.… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
