Ethan Hawke
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah, and it's not just fame.
That analogy works for all walks of life, really.
You know, if you have a really... Something...
really traumatic happens in childhood, it's very hard to recover.
It's a tremendous amount of work to recover.
Like, I think celebrity is like, it's like a tiny drop of mercury or it's poison.
It's poison for your brain.
Now, if you're mature, you can handle it.
And if you get it in slow, like I got it in slow increments.
Dead Poets Society happened.
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.