Ethan Hawke Quotes

I don't regret doing 'The Living Daylights'. If I hadn't done Bond, I wouldn't have been in America doing my series, and I would have had a different life.

It's so ridiculous how you just get a call one day and go on an audition that can easily change your life for the next several years.

'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' was this role that utterly fell into my lap and changed my life.

Like any other actor, my agent called me with an opportunity. It just so happens that the opportunity was the lead in 'Star Wars.'

Ja Rule not doing '2 Fast 2 Furious' changed Ludacris's life.

Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier, ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.

His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about.

It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting.

I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.

If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine.

I was like, 'Whoa, I'm auditioning for 'Hunger Games?' That's like my dream come true. That's like a Trekkie auditioning for 'Star Trek.'

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.

By the time May rolls around, I'm probably going to want to spend a month on an island. But if Steven Spielberg or Steven Soderbergh or any number of directors were to say 'Hey, there's this role, are you interested?' I'd be there in a flash.

If someone asked me to be in a movie, I'd be more than happy.

I was working at a restaurant in L.A. when a producer came in. He said I should audition for this movie 'Cellular.' I did, and I got the part. It actually makes me sick to tell that story because it's obnoxious.

When I auditioned for '21 Jump Street,' it was a last minute thing. I had one of the worst flus that I've ever experienced in my life, and I was forced to go to the audition, the screen test.

I actually got hurt in a steel factory in 1985 and so that changed my life. I went to a junior college and that's where I discovered acting.

I was 14 years old. I did an audition for extra work as an actor, with two lines. Suddenly I was auditioning for a bigger role, and then got a part on a Portuguese TV series at age 15. My whole life changed completely.

I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The Last Exorcism' that changed my life: with what I earned, I left Texas and moved to Los Angeles.

I remember the mid-'50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the U.K.

I don't think many people can say they've been the lead in a Spielberg film and still been able to live their normal life that they had before.

It was Howard Hawks who changed my life.

The first time I came to California was in January 2013, when I auditioned for 'Vampire Academy.'

I did well as an actor in Australia, and then Paramount invited me over... to have a look at me.