Explore Quotes by John Hawkes

Being a kid, as all kids do, you feel out of place or like kind of a freak. You wake up feeling like your head got put onto someone else's body that day.

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.

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.

When I realized that you can't necessarily be cast in a really great part living in Austin, even when Hollywood comes to town, I got a demo reel together and headed out west.

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.

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.

I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do.

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!

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.

I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

It seems like every year Hollywood makes an attempt to retell the Manson story, and I just couldn't be less interested in it. It's not really our crowning achievement as a civilisation. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, but it just bores me.

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.

Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.

'The New York Times' thing... I think any actor would be thrilled to be profiled in that paper.

If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending.

It's hard to get concert tickets.

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.

It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that.

I think we're all mysteries to ourselves.

It's probably odd for someone to read an interview where the interviewee is worried about exposure while they're talking in an interview.

I met Robert Rodriguez working on a movie called 'Roadracers.'