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
attractive level people prospect understand understood
I understand why people achieve a level of fame and disappear, I never understood it before, but it's an attractive prospect to walk away from it all.
gets people tear
When something gets attention so quickly, people sometimes will look for reasons to find fault and tear it down.
people nerd austin
I do all kinds of roles - nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho - and occasionally someone kind of normal. It's weird, when I lived in Austin I was always cast as pretty normal people. But when I moved to Los Angeles I was immediately branded a psycho
believe play people
I want people to believe me when I play a part and they are less apt to if they know a lot about me and have associations about me.
strong play people
I generally play strong people and scary people.
alaska people way
When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship.
independent people stories
I'm just looking for the best story being told by the best people and the best part that I can find. If those things add up, I want to be a part of it whether it's a studio film or, more likely in that instance, an independent film.
moving people kind
People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.
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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.
american-novelist began certainly envy mocked poetry poets since
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.
american-novelist nest ruin stepped tall telling
As he was telling us about these pleasures, at that very moment, in the ruin and the tall grass, I stepped on a hornets, nest and got stung.
aware certainly imagination life vivid
As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling, but there's certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that you're making a movie.
ask audience chance exactly feels frame move though tiny vice
As an actor, you don't often get a chance to know exactly the impact of what the audience is seeing, even though you can ask where the frame is. A move that feels tiny can be huge, and vice versa.
pace race speed
The speed of the race is a concern. There is not a lot of pace in the race,