Frasi di Ethan Hawke
Ethan Hawke
Data di nascita: 6. Novembre 1970
Ethan Green Hawke è un attore, sceneggiatore, scrittore e regista statunitense.
Frasi Ethan Hawke
„Le divise militari ti fanno sentire qualcuno, ti fanno sentire di avere uno scopo, anche se non ce l'hai. Ti senti speciale, parte della tradizione. Non sei una persona qualunque, un civile: sei nobile. Ma tutto questo orgoglio ha un rovescio della medaglia: sono soltanto balle.“
— Ethan Hawke
da Mercoledì delle ceneri, traduzione di Martina Testa, Minimum fax
„The thing that really breeds career longevity in this profession is doing good work. You can make $20 million a movie, but does that mean you'll still have a job when you're 60? It's a profession that eats people up and wants constant turnaround, so you have to dedicate yourself to learning and making the most of whatever gift you may have.“
— Ethan Hawke
[http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/entertainment/2000/05/11/2000-05-11_a_renaissance_man_tackles_sh.html New York Daily News] (2000-05-11)
„Seeing the play (A Lie of the Mind) clearly is part of why I wanted to direct it. I see hope at the end of this play. People talk about how dark the play was, but I feel like, if you really look at the darkness, you’re able to go through it, and you realize that you can handle dark moments in life and that everything will be all right.“
— Ethan Hawke
[http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/theater/31roundtable.html?pagewanted=all The New York Times] (2010-01-27)
„In grade school they say you have to pick a profession and stick to it... and people stop looking at their lives as a work in progress. If you don't stay in touch with yourself, you kind of lose focus. If you're going to spend a life in the arts, you need to be infused with a sense of gratitude and a sense of wonder. It's a privilege to do this profession. But there is a payment you have to make for that privilege, which is to do your best all the time.“
— Ethan Hawke
[http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-hawke7-2010jan07,0,7915056.story Los Angeles Times] (2010-01-07)
„People look at your life and see things as a big deal that aren't a big deal to you. What I mean is, the chapter breaks are different for me. I'll read about my divorce, and what people think about it, and, well, it's so inaccurate, usually, but the fact is, I wouldn't want it to be accurate. Because it's my truth. When I was younger, it was more important to me to come off well. Now, I just want to try to be good at what I do.“
— Ethan Hawke
[http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2005/oct/08/features.fiction The Guardian] (2005-10-08)
„The experience on that movie (Dead Poets Society) was, for lack of a better term, life-altering. Peter Weir has a unique talent for making movies that are intelligent but also mainstream. I've never been terribly successful at doing that.“
— Ethan Hawke
[http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2000/dec/08/culture.features1 The Guardian] (2000-12-08)
„People love actors. They love reading about them and thinking about their lives. But they also secretly hate them. They think their lives are frivolous and all they do is go to parties, and they don't know real problems... There's something at the root of our love-hate relationship with celebrity that I think has the makings, if you could do it in a really substantive way, of a great modern American novel.“
— Ethan Hawke
[http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2002/sep/08/fiction.features The Observer] (2002-09-08)
„It's its own form of cinema, it's its own entity. I think Chekhov would like Before Sunset because it's all about nuance. Any decent screen-writing school would throw that script out. There's no beginning, middle and end, it's completely fluid, just chasing the nuance of life, and kind of believing whatever God is lives in this kind of energy that flows between all of us. I kind of live for that, for that chance that you might get another opportunity to be a part of something like that.“
— Ethan Hawke
[http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/may/16/ethan-hawke-cherry-orchard-old-vic-mendes The Guardian] (2009-05-16)
„A lot of American actors when they do Shakespeare put on a phoney English accent and it drives me crazy. You're always fighting against the idea that only the British know how to do Shakespeare.“
— Ethan Hawke
[http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/entertainment/2000/05/11/2000-05-11_a_renaissance_man_tackles_sh.html New York Daily News] (2000-05-11)
„I've had different opportunities in my life, but I've tried to maintain the spirit of an amateur. Our culture roots everything in the barometer of success and how much money you make. But if you really just aspire to a life in the arts, it's really not a barometer at all.“
— Ethan Hawke
[http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/entertainment/2000/05/11/2000-05-11_a_renaissance_man_tackles_sh.html New York Daily News] (2000-05-11)
„I never thought that I would be labeled something like Generation X because of that movie (Reality Bites). I had no idea going into it, and it wasn't a label I could relate to.“
— Ethan Hawke
[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/14/movies/the-payoff-for-ethan-hawke.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all The New York Times] (2002-04-14)
„I was really nervous to read it because I really wanted to like it, you know, 'cause I've had this problem in my life before. I'll get offered something by people I respect and want to work with, but I can't pretend I like it... Hank's just a horrible guy and he's so sad, and he hates himself and he never does the right thing. But I had to admit that it was kind of the challenge I was looking for.“
— Ethan Hawke
[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/01/AR2007110100750.html The Washington Post] (2007-11-02)
On Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)
„Writing the book (The Hottest State) had to do with dropping out of college, and with being an actor. I didn't want my whole life to go by and not do anything but recite lines. I wanted to try making something else. It was definitely the scariest thing I ever did. And a huge learning experience about how not everybody's going to like you, or like what you do. And you have to ask yourself, is it worthwhile? Or am I just doing it to be liked? And it was just one of the best things I ever did. The second book (Ash Wednesday) was so much more fun because of that. The first was just a novelty act, like, 'The kid from Reality Bites wrote a book? Who does he think he is?' And I understand that.“
— Ethan Hawke
[http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2005/oct/08/features.fiction The Guardian] (2005-10-08)
