Ethan Hawke

He's a ghost.

He's dead.

If he cannot save his work, then he's gone.

And no wonder you'd start to hit the bottle and you'd hit it hard.

Yeah, he did.

Yeah.

And I think the story that I told John Lahr must have been, I had an incredible moment on stage.

So I'm out on stage and I'm doing this monologue and I just kind of decide to take a moment and look out at the audience.

And I saw my director.

I made eye contact with him, Jack O'Brien, and I admire him wildly.

He's a genius theater director.

And then I looked to the left and there was Tom Stoppard.

Just one of my favorite human beings on the planet Earth.

And

I was thinking to myself, what an amazing moment this is to be in Lincoln Center with these people I wildly admire.

And I knew it was one of the last times I was going to be doing the show.

It was certainly the last time they would be there.

And as I was having this kind of wonderful moment, I realized I had no idea where I was in the monologue.

But I couldn't remember if I'd begun the monologue or whether I was finished with the monologue or if I was in the middle of it.

And I just completely froze.