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.
That's the great thing about plankton. It pretty much keeps to itself. - Gene Hackman
That's the great thing about plankton. It pretty much keeps to itself.
- Gene Hackman
Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance. - Gene Hackman
Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance.
Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute. - Gene Hackman
Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute.
If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being. - Gene Hackman
If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.
I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press. - Gene Hackman
I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.
I do not like assassins, or men of low character. - Gene Hackman
I do not like assassins, or men of low character.
Don't piss in my ear and tell me it's raining. - Gene Hackman
Don't piss in my ear and tell me it's raining.
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 wit… - Gene Hackman
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 wit…
Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors. - Gene Hackman
Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.
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