John Hawkes
John Hawkes
John Hawkesis an American film and television actor. He is known for his portrayal of the merchant Sol Star on the HBO series Deadwood, Dustin Powers on Eastbound & Down, Academy Award-nominated performance as the menacing backwoods meth addict "Teardrop" Dolly in Winter's Bone and his Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominated portrayal of Mark O'Brien in The Sessions...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth11 September 1959
CountryUnited States of America
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Hitchhiking was such a pure form of existence. You'd wake up in the morning, and you'd have no idea what your day was going to be. And that's something I've never been able to shake. I loved that.
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He was the first person to befriend me at Harvard. At any rate, in some class the teacher gave us an exercise which I've used ever since.
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He's come a long way in a short time.
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He was the best. He was phenomenal. You wouldn't get a better jockey. He is probably riding in his twilight now, but he's still capable of competing with the very best,
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Some friends of mine bothered me for a long time about getting on the social networking pages. They were close friends that I liked to mess with, and I think that I kind of enjoyed for a while that it bothered them so much. Now they've just kind of given up.
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But he's got a long way to go to get to the Derby. It's entirely up to him how he copes along the way as to how far he'll go this spring. He ran only once last season because he was still immature and is not mentally there yet. But he's doing the right things and I hope he continues to go ahead. If he can't cope, I'll turn him out.
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In the time between when you first read a script and are offered the role and the time when you begin to shoot, I really love putting in the time and work on that and getting a solid backstory to a character and researching all that I can about what that person does for a vocation or their upbringing or where they're from.
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Once I started to write prose, I certainly did not envy the poets. I've mocked poets and poetry ever since I began writing fiction.
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I don't really try to judge any character that I play, afterwards I figure it out, but while I'm working on the character, I have to find something in them to relate to.
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Because of my father's dislocated life, I knew intuitively that I wanted to have as few jobs as possible by the time I was married.
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I'd said to my sweetheart a couple of days before that the SAG and Spirit Award nomination was amazing and I had no attachment to the Academy Award. I knew I was an underdog so I just decided to sleep through the announcement.
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I doubt he will run but you never rule anything out. I just want to see how he pulls up this week before I work out where we go with him,
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I guess you can say that every actor is a 'character actor' on some level. But I think some actors have a wider range. I think that's how you get that mantle.
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In my earliest childhood, we seemed to move back and forth between New York City and Connecticut until I was about eight or ten years old.