Gene Hackman
Gene Hackman
Eugene Allen "Gene" Hackmanis a retired American actor and novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth30 January 1930
CitySan Bernardino, CA
CountryUnited States of America
guy saws hollywood
Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.
dangerous powerful tomorrow weapon
You have a powerful weapon working for you. For you there is no tomorrow and that makes you all very dangerous people!
confident decided fifties fulfill further needed perform searching taking trained
I got fired, I think, because I just didn't fulfill the director's and the writer's idea of what the part should've been. In rehearsals, I do a lot of searching around, I try not to perform and I really feel confident in what I'm doing. I mean, you can go first day and perform and probably won't go further than that. But the way that we were all trained in the Fifties and Sixties, you needed to keep searching and so, I was doing that, and they decided that I was just taking too much time.
guy sentimental
I'm not a sentimental guy.
son support advice
I lost touch with my son in terms of advice early on. Maybe it had to do with being gone so much, doing location films when he was at an age where he needed support and guidance.
eye tired men
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.
jobs team night
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.
friday wife days-off
My wife and I take what we call our Friday comedy day off. We watch standup comics on TV. The raunchier the better. We love Eddie Izzard.
play broadway comedy
My early days in Broadway were all comedies. I never did a straight play on Broadway.
basketball team player
Five players on the floor functioning as a single unit: team, team, team-no one more important than the other.
stars actors
I was trained to be an actor, not a star.
stranger
Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. (as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994)
jobs new-york marine
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.
morning writing eight
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.