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John Hawkes is amazing. I really want to meet that man; he's so good. Him and Ben Foster, and I'm a big fan of Nick Stahl - those are my three guys. — Rory Culkin

On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me. — John C. Hawkes

'The New York Times' thing ... I think any actor would be thrilled to be profiled in that paper. — John Hawkes

I lived in Texas for 10 years. — John Hawkes

The corridor smelled of water in the bottoms of purple vases and the piano was banging just beyond this emptiness. — John Hawkes

Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later. — John Hawkes

When you're just starting out, and someone you think is a real storyteller says something good about you, that helps. — John Hawkes

It's probably odd for someone to read an interview where the interviewee is worried about exposure while they're talking in an interview. — John Hawkes

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending. — John Hawkes

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. — John C. Hawkes

Even the small amount of infamy I have makes me uncomfortable - on a personal level and on a professional level. — John Hawkes

Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year. — John C. Hawkes

A lot of times, you just don't get the jobs you want to get. — John Hawkes

I think we're all mysteries to ourselves. — John Hawkes

I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal. — John C. Hawkes

Part of the way that I work is to observe. — John Hawkes

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately. — John C. Hawkes

I met Robert Rodriguez working on a movie called 'Roadracers.' — John Hawkes

If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending. — John Hawkes

To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening. — John C. Hawkes

I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it. — John C. Hawkes

In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old. — John C. Hawkes

My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano. — John C. Hawkes

I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then. — John C. Hawkes

It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that. — John Hawkes

I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting. — John C. Hawkes

You don't really ever think you're that crazy person you're playing. — John Hawkes

Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured. — John Hawkes

When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship. — John C. Hawkes

When something gets attention so quickly, people sometimes will look for reasons to find fault and tear it down. — John Hawkes

I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems. — John C. Hawkes

I understand why people achieve a level of fame and disappear, I never understood it before, but it's an attractive prospect to walk away from it all. — John Hawkes

If the birds sing, the nudes are not far off. — John Hawkes

I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything. — John Hawkes

I do not feel an exile from America in any sense. — John C. Hawkes

For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way. — John Hawkes

It's hard to get concert tickets. — John Hawkes

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me. — John Hawkes

I generally play strong people and scary people. — John Hawkes

I want people to believe me when I play a part and they are less apt to if they know a lot about me and have associations about me. — John Hawkes

People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on. — John Hawkes

You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help. — John Hawkes

The writer should always serve as his own angleworm - and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better. — John Hawkes

I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English. — John C. Hawkes

I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing. — John C. Hawkes

As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari. — John C. Hawkes

John Hawkes is an extraordinary writer. I have always admired his books. They should he more widely read. — Saul Bellow

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. — John Hawkes

I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do. — John Hawkes

I was not typical. Whatever typical or normal is, I was somehow separated and different. — John C. Hawkes

Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another. — John Hawkes

I don't mean to be highfalutin about it, but I try to limit my visibility. — John Hawkes

My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead. — John C. Hawkes

The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language. — John C. Hawkes

I don't have actor training myself. — John Hawkes