Explore Quotes by Gene Hackman

Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. (as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994)

I was trained to be an actor, not a star.

Five players on the floor functioning as a single unit: team, team, team-no one more important than the other.

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.

Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than life - that's exciting.

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.