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
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 lived in Texas for 10 years. There were a lot of people chewing, including my dad. — 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
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 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
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 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
I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
If a musician wants to be an actor, everyone thinks that's pretty cool. But if an actor wants to play a song,… — John Hawkes Actor Copy Share Image
It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real… — John Hawkes Art Copy Share Image
I'd said to my sweetheart a couple of days before that the SAG and Spirit Award nomination was amazing and I had… — John Hawkes Academy Copy Share Image
It's not like every director in every movie is seeking me out by any means, there are a lot of things I'm… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
It seems like every year Hollywood makes an attempt to retell the Manson story, and I just couldn't be less interested in… — John Hawkes Achievement 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
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 want people to believe me when I play a part and they are less apt to if they know a lot… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
The only thing I do on a computer is play Texas Hold 'Em, really. Obviously my cell phone is a computer. My… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
When I realized that you can't necessarily be cast in a really great part living in Austin, even when Hollywood comes to… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
It's much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in… — John Hawkes Fight Copy Share Image
I don't really try to judge any character that I play, afterwards I figure it out, but while I'm working on the… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling, but there's certainly… — John Hawkes Actor Copy Share Image
I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
It's probably odd for someone to read an interview where the interviewee is worried about exposure while they're talking in an interview. — John Hawkes Exposure Copy Share Image
Hitchhiking was such a pure form of existence. You'd wake up in the morning, and you'd have no idea what your day… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
As an actor, you don't often get a chance to know exactly the impact of what the audience is seeing, even though… — John Hawkes Actor Copy Share Image
I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
“Need I insist that the only enemy of the mature marriage is monogamy? That anything less than sexual multiplicity...is naive? That our… — John Hawkes Marriage Copy Share Image
