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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!

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John Hawkes
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: September 11
Actor
Film Actor
Television Actor
Alexandria
Minnesota
Skeletons
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My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.
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I generally play strong people and scary people.
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For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.
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The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.
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Even the small amount of infamy I have makes me uncomfortable - on a personal level and on a professional level.
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I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of vision or structure was really all that remained.
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I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.
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I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to be a different kind of television show.
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Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year.
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It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that.
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If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending.
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'The New York Times' thing... I think any actor would be thrilled to be profiled in that paper.
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I'm just looking for the best story being told by the best people and the best part that I can find. If those things add up, I want to be a part of it whether it's a studio film or, more likely in that instance, an independent film.
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Part of the way that I work is to observe.
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Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.
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As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.
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I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.
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It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female it may shift back and forth.
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It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.
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A lot of times, you just don't get the jobs you want to get.
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