Gene Hackman Quotes

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• Five players on the floor functioning as a single unit: team, team, team-no one more important than the other.
• I was trained to be an actor, not a star.
• Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. (as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994)
• If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.
• I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers…
• If I start to become a star, I'll lose contact with the normal guys I play best.
• I don't like to talk about myself that much.
• I don't see myself as a violent guy.
• I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine.
• I left home when I was 16 because I was looking for adventure.
• I'm disappointed that success hasn't been a Himalayan feeling.
• I'm not a sentimental guy.
• My early days in Broadway were all comedies. I never did a straight play on Broadway.
• My wife and I take what we call our Friday comedy day off. We watch standup comics on TV. The raunchier the better. We love…
• The worst job I ever had was working nights in the Chrysler Building. I was part of a team of about five guys, and we…
• Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see…
• I lost touch with my son in terms of advice early on. Maybe it had to do with being gone so much, doing location films…
• I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New…
• I write in the morning from about eight till noon, and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I start off by…
• My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line…

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