Ethan Hawke
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2,732 appearances
8 recordings
5 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 6 Jul
Ethan Hawke’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But when it's good, it is like diving into a dream.
And it's a feeling that I got for the first time when I was 18 years old, acting in Dead Poets Society.
And it is a feeling.
It was seconds long.
I mean, it was not much, but a feeling of disappearing.
And that's the irony I always feel about acting is that people think about actors and they see these pictures on the red carpet or something and they think that's what acting is.
What it really is, it's a life that's completely antithetical to that of trying to disappear.
It feels like the celebration of the self, the celebration of the personality.
But when you're doing a scene with Philip Seymour Hoffman,
It's not Phil that's talking to you.
It's like in the cartoon when the eyes go all squirrely.
And then all of a sudden, I'm not me.
And if I've done my work right,
All of a sudden I'm saying what's coming out of my mouth is what I prepared.
What's coming out of my pocket is what I prepared.
The way I'm moving is what I'm prepared.
And I'm not thinking about it.
It's like watching a great athlete.
When a great athlete makes a behind-the-back pass to the guy at the perfect second, he's not thinking, oh, I've got a cool idea.
I'm going to throw it behind my back and I'll catch him right as he's in stride.
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