Quotes from Ethan Hawke

We all have this fantasy of finding our one true love who's going to be the perfect fit. It's just not a reality.

There is no trick to writing a believable love story, a heartbreaking scene or real-sounding dialogue. All you need is to tell the truth. It's always heartbreaking.

The truth is that the more you get paid, the less freedom you have. They never pay you for nothing.

But the truth is, I've never wanted to be a movie star - and I've been pretty clear about that.

In truth, the world is a complicated place.

When an analogy is really singing, it's what you want it to be.

We live in a funny time. If you don't go corporate, you can't compete. You're relegated as irrelevant. People used to admire that.

I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.

To get to be somebody who gets to love what they do for a living, that's so rare, and so there must be some kind of price you have to pay.

In fact, I think my life is always going to be difficult, because I am trying to do something... "original" is a big word. It's kind of pathetic, but I have to love what I'm doing.

Everyone has to pay their child support, and no matter if you're a Hollywood actor or anyone else, it's always a little bit more than you want to pay.

Right now the only people I can really fall in love with are people who don't really, truly want me around. Now why do I do that?

The constant buzz and pressure and noise and static of the Internet, and the way it makes young people feel makes it difficult to grow up and develop the way one might want to.

It's so hard for every young person, trying to figure out the adult you want to be.

'Brooklyn's Finest,' this is the kind of movie that's why I want to be an actor, to tell real-life stories. This is where I feel my job is, to interpret life.

The girls who like me aren't the ones I like. Or, if I do and they want to commit, I suddenly need tons of time with my friends.

At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we invariably choose the money.

I've always been drawn to the best writing that I can find. I don't care if it's in movies or theater or whatever - if you want to be in front of an audience, you have to do writing you believe in.

The idea that a film is created in the editing room - it's only a certain kind of movie that's made in the editing room and it's not one that I really want to see.

The more kind of head trippy sci-fi. I always like that. I was a big 'Twilight Zone' freak.

I think it's my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I've learned from the actors I've worked with is you don't get something for nothing. If you don't risk looking foolish, you'll never do anything special.

The older I get, the more I realize how rare it is to meet a kindred spirit.

It is very difficult for any couple who are married if both people are ambitious. I don't know if it's just too hard to be married to a woman that wants to be a movie star.

The thing that makes a great genre movie is one that's not just entertainment, not just horror or sci-fi or whatever. The ones I love are the genre pictures with some subversive message underlying it all.