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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!

John Hawkes

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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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Part of the way that I work is to observe.
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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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A lot of times, you just don't get the jobs you want to get.
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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 New York Times' thing... I think any actor would be thrilled to be profiled in that paper.
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I lived in Texas for 10 years. There were a lot of people chewing, including my dad.
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The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.
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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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I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing.
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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've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.
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Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.
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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 don't mean to be highfalutin about it, but I try to limit my visibility.
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To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.
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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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I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.
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