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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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
John Hawkes is an extraordinary writer. I have always admired his books. They should he more widely read.
— Saul Bellow
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
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
I don't have actor training myself.
— John Hawkes