Gene Hackman Quotes
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Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. (as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994)
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Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than life - that's exciting.
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My early days in Broadway were all comedies. I never did a straight play on Broadway.
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Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.
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Five players on the floor functioning as a single unit: team, team, team-no one more important than the other.
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Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.
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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.
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I left home when I was 16 because I was looking for adventure.
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I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine.
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I'm not a sentimental guy.
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Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn.
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If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.
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I write in the morning from about eight till noon, and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I start off by going over what I had done the previous day, which my wife has happily typed up for me.
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I don't see myself as a violent guy.
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Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.
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The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.
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I do not like assassins, or men of low character.
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Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance.
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I was trained to be an actor, not a star.
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I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven years later, I got my first job.
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The worst job I ever had was working nights in the Chrysler Building. I was part of a team of about five guys, and we polished the leather furniture.
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That's the great thing about plankton. It pretty much keeps to itself.
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I don't like to talk about myself that much.
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Don't piss in my ear and tell me it's raining.
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My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.
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Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute.
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I'm disappointed that success hasn't been a Himalayan feeling.
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I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.
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You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, 'Why didn't I choose something else?' But overall I'm pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor.
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If I start to become a star, I'll lose contact with the normal guys I play best.
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