Ethan Hawke

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.

Yeah.

Something's happening.

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.

And it filled me with...

desire to show her that I was taking responsibility for my own education, which is what I said I would do.

And so I started a theater company and I worked really hard at a lot of different things, writing and reading and thinking and

Mostly with this theater company where I met a lot of young people who were interested in what I was doing, but we weren't paid any money.

And we worked our asses off and we built sets and we, you know, it was fun.

I don't want to lie.

We had a great time.

But it was a college experience that I gave myself through this theater company.

And that changed me because I met a lot of people who were really excellent at what I do that weren't making a lot of money.

I met a lot of people who loved it as much as I do, who weren't getting their picture taken, who weren't being told they were special.