John Hawkes Quotes

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether it's a man or a woman.

I'm so different to the roles I play, and perhaps that's why they are appealing to me as an actor. But I would never want to inhabit my characters' shoes in real life.

I love playing different and challenging characters on screen, and Newton is one such role. But I'm someone who doesn't think so much about what will happen next.

I'm not a critic. I'm an actor. I see the role I get given on the page. I try to bring it to life as best as I can.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think... let the character develop and grow inside me.

I want to play an action hero. I'm ready for roles that totally aren't me.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

I get very competitive, mostly in acting though. When I'm going out for a role or something, that's when I really get very territorial about things.

It's fun to play the character and then watch him later.

When I was doing 'All in the Family,' half the time, I was looking at where the cameras were, where were the other actors in the scene, what the audience was doing.

I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

As an actress, you have to give your character a life, a history, and make it full and rich for yourself.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

I'm so into playing different characters, even when I was on Nickelodeon. I just observe.

I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible.

I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.

Well, usually when I finish one character, I'm looking for a role that's really different.

I'd always dabbled in acting.

I loved my role on Who's the Boss? There is always some of me in every character that I play.