Ethan Hawke

And the sooner you learn that other people's opinions don't have to affect you, I think the better off you are.

So in that way, it hurt me.

I've seen it happen to actors, especially if you're doing stage.

I'm sure with comics, when you're doing a play and you have to do it every night and you start reading a lot of bad things that people say about you, it is...

demolishing to your confidence.

You know, I mean, I had this actor friend of mine, we shared a dressing room and one day he came in and he was great in the show and he came in and just his whole energy was dark.

I was like, you already, I went down the rabbit hole last night.

I just read what people are saying about me on the internet and everybody thinks I'm terrible in this play.

And I'm like, they don't like your character.

People are not so brilliant.

There's no geniuses out there chiming in on what a jerk you are at three in the morning.

So you don't have to take it seriously.

But it took him weeks to get his mojo back.

Because he would step out on stage just imagining this chorus of hate.

It is, actually.

There's a great lesson.

You know what?

I don't think Paul Dano ever knew that so many people loved him.

Right.

Out of nowhere.