John Hawkes Quotes

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.

John Hawkes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 11, 1959

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ArtEndBetterPictureYouMuseum

I'm not a big worrier because I just think stress is just not a good thing... it's just like, what's the point?

Joanna Krupa

GoodStressThinkPointBigJust

I'm used to being productive, ever since I was young.

Robert Pozen

YoungUsedBeingProductiveEver

Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.

Steven Spielberg

LeadershipGoodPeopleNameFavorite

Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.

Sloane Crosley

BirthdayTimeDoctorReadingThree

You don't really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men.

Shirley Manson

PerspectiveMenYouRadioBeing

Africa's not a color - it's a place.

Trevor Noah

ColorPlaceAfrica

You can't talk about life without talking about politics. You have to have both. If you're just a political person, you're going to burn out. If you, as an artist, are just focused inward, you're going to eventually be irrelevant.

Robert Adams

LifePoliticsPoliticalTalkingYou

Obama, he wouldn't have been in office without what happened to me and a lot of black people before me. He would never have been in that situation, no doubt in my mind. He would get there eventually, but it would have been a lot longer. So I am glad for what I went through. It opened the doors for a lot of people.

Rodney King

I AmPeopleMindMeBlackDoors

We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But the main reason we do foreign assistance is we do it in the American national interest.

Roger Wicker

AmericanReasonInterestHumanitarian

There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.

Roy Jenkins

GoodGreatBestEnemyAlways

Peter Jackson is a wonderful man. He's a great director. He's found his niche in life.

Luke Evans

LifeGreatManDirectorNicheFound

When you're playing someone who drinks a lot, it's not that interesting to play that condition because as soon as you know that, you got all the information you're going to get from it. It's like hitting the same note on the piano over and over again.

Jared Harris

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