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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I don't have actor training myself.
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For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.
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It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that.
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'The New York Times' thing... I think any actor would be thrilled to be profiled in that paper.
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The only thing I do on a computer is play Texas Hold 'Em, really. Obviously my cell phone is a computer. My car is a computer. I'm on computers every day without actively seeking them out.
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When something gets attention so quickly, people sometimes will look for reasons to find fault and tear it down.
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We have good chances in most of the races and that's all you can ask. You need luck to win a race, anywhere.
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I didn't worry about any criticism of the horse, I was happy enough with his earlier runs. He was set for the Derby and he peaked on the right day. It was a pleasing result.
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I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint a picture for an hour you're a better actor at the end of it.
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She should have 60kg. She's won every big race once, if not twice and look how close she is at the weights to Railings (54kg), who has only won a Metropolitan and a Caulfield Cup. I can't believe how well she's got in.
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My education was constantly interrupted. I moved around a great deal, had no real sense of home, except for the New England landscape.
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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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I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.
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I think we've all been misled, at moments in our lives, certainly in school situations, and things like that, with getting with the wrong group briefly, or falling in with someone who we learn the truth about and no longer want to really be with.