"I left home when I was 16 because……" — Gene Hackman
"I left home when I was 16 because I was looking for adventure."
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28 Quotes by Gene Hackman
Gene Hackman has 28 quotes on this site.
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Five players on the floor functioning as a single unit: team, team, team-no one more important than the other.
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I was trained to be an actor, not a star.
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Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. (as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994)
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If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.
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I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with…
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If I start to become a star, I'll lose contact with the normal guys I play best.
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I don't like to talk about myself that much.
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I don't see myself as a violent guy.
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I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine.
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I'm disappointed that success hasn't been a Himalayan feeling.
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I'm not a sentimental guy.
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My early days in Broadway were all comedies. I never did a straight play on Broadway.
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More Adventure Quotes
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one of 1,845 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
— Aristophanes
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
— Aristotle
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
— Neil Armstrong
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I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to…
— David Attenborough
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The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
— Saint Augustine
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
— Marcus Aurelius
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
— Ansel Adams
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I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.
— Christian Bale
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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
— James M. Barrie
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Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done…
— Edward Abbey
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in…
— Mary Ritter Beard
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Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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