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 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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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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The earliest memory in Connecticut that I can think of has to do with a riding stable that abutted against the property of my grandfather.
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I thought he did a good job last week but he's drawn badly and that makes it tough, particularly from the 2400m start,
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When I over-prepare, I try to let it all go and forget all about it when the camera rolls, so I can just be present with the other actors and allow what's going to happen to happen without too much preconception.
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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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If a musician wants to be an actor, everyone thinks that's pretty cool. But if an actor wants to play a song, even if they've been doing it for 40 years, that's bad news.