Ethan Hawke
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I had a little taste of fame, but I wasn't, nobody knew my name.
You could go to restaurants.
Yeah, it was that kid from Dead Poets Society.
And I got it in slow – I got to develop – what do you call it when you get a little bit of – Resistance.
And it came so slowly for me.
I even think about people – I remember –
The weekend Pretty Woman came out two days before no one had ever heard of Julia Roberts.
Two days afterwards, she's the most famous woman in America.
I think that's a huge thing to absorb.
I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
And I know that my personality couldn't have handled it.
I've worked hard to handle it as poorly or well as I have.
Something's happening, but then I had the years after that...
Though, you know, I have to give a shout-out to my mom, who was just so devastated that I dropped out of college.
I mean, she just couldn't stop crying about it, you know.