My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.
From John Hawkes
For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change.
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.
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.
You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help.
I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.
As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.
I don't have actor training myself.
A lot of times, you just don't get the jobs you want to get.
Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.
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