As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as youre working and when the cameras rolling, but theres certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that youre making a movie. – John Hawkes
If a musician wants to be an actor, everyone thinks thats pretty cool. But if an actor wants to play a song, even if theyve been doing it for 40 years, thats bad news. – John Hawkes
Its much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that theyre ill-equipped to solve their problems. – John Hawkes
Id said to my sweetheart a couple of days before that the SAG and Spirit Award nomination was amazing and I had no attachment to the Academy Award. I knew I was an underdog so I just decided to sleep through the announcement. – John Hawkes
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. – Henry James