Quotes by Gene Hackman - Page 1

I'm not a sentimental guy.
Gene Hackman / Actor
Guy
Sentimental
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I don't see myself as a violent guy.
Gene Hackman / Actor
Guy
Violent
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I was trained to be an actor, not a star.
Gene Hackman / Actor
Actors
Stars
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I don't like to talk about myself that much.
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Don't piss in my ear and tell me it's raining.
Gene Hackman / Actor
Ears
Rain
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I do not like assassins, or men of low character.
Gene Hackman / Actor
Men
Assassins
Character
Low
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I'm disappointed that success hasn't been a Himalayan feeling.
Gene Hackman / Actor
Disappointed
Feelings
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I left home when I was 16 because I was looking for adventure.
Gene Hackman / Actor
Home
Adventure
Left
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The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.
Gene Hackman / Actor
Courage
Smile
Coward
Differences
Hero
Sideways
Between
Difference
Step
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Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.
Gene Hackman / Actor
Actors
Dysfunctional Family
Good Actors
Numbers
Dysfunctional
Families
Number
Pretty Good
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That's the great thing about plankton. It pretty much keeps to itself.
Gene Hackman / Actor
Great Things
Plankton
Replacements
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Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.
Gene Hackman / Actor
Guy
Hollywood
Saws
Typecast
Loves
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If I start to become a star, I'll lose contact with the normal guys I play best.
Gene Hackman / Actor
Contact
Guy
Normal
Play
Stars
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My early days in Broadway were all comedies. I never did a straight play on Broadway.
Gene Hackman / Actor
Broadway
Comedy
Play
Comedies
Early Days
Straight
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I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine.
Gene Hackman / Actor
Authority
Marine
Trouble
Direction
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Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance.
Gene Hackman / Actor
Endurance
Luck
Successful
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If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.
Gene Hackman / Actor
Looks
Lost
Portrayal
Stars
Star
Human Being
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Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. (as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994)
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Five players on the floor functioning as a single unit: team, team, team-no one more important than the other.
Gene Hackman / Actor
Basketball
Player
Team
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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 / Actor
Agents
Fame
Play
Roles
Stars
Star
Press
Trained
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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 / Actor
Ducks
Feet
Water
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My wife and I take what we call our Friday comedy day off. We watch standup comics on TV. The raunchier the better. We love Eddie Izzard.
Gene Hackman / Actor
Friday
Watches
Wife
Comics
Eddie
Standup
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Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.
Gene Hackman / Actor
Cases
Children
Done
Heard
Parent
Done Your Parents
Children Parents Your
Oftentimes
Pick
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The worst job I ever had was working nights in the Chrysler Building. I was part of a team of about five guys, and we polished the leather furniture.
Gene Hackman / Actor
Jobs
Chrysler
Five
Furniture
Leather
Night
Polished
Team
Worst
Nights
Guys
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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.
Gene Hackman / Actor
Honesty
People
Real
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My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.
Gene Hackman / Actor
Uncles
Grandfather
Lines
Writing
Somewhere
Reporter
Writers
Newspaper
Newspaper Reporter
Pretty Good
Uncle
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I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven years later, I got my first job.
Gene Hackman / Actor
Jobs
New York
Half
Marine
Seven
First Job
Half Years
Later
Marines
Spent
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I lost touch with my son in terms of advice early on. Maybe it had to do with being gone so much, doing location films when he was at an age where he needed support and guidance.
Gene Hackman / Actor
Advice
Guidance
Location
Needed
Son
Support
Touch
Films
Terms
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I write in the morning from about eight till noon, and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I start off by going over what I had done the previous day, which my wife has happily typed up for me.
Gene Hackman / Actor
Morning
Afternoon
Eight
Noon
Writing
Happily
Till
Previous
Typed
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Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn.
Gene Hackman / Actor
Fun
Pages
Respectful
Scripts
Great Fun
Screenplay
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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.
Gene Hackman / Actor
Men
Eye
Tired
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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.
Gene Hackman / Actor
Old Man
Tired
Young
Quite
Baggy
Costs
Old
Watch
Emotionally
Eyes
Receding
Screen
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You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, 'Why didn't I choose something else?' But overall I'm pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor.
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Awful
Careers
Choices
Decided
Satisfied
Good Yourself Your
Good Yourself Feel
Choice
Overall
Right Choice
Something Else
Stages
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