Ethan Hawke
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Put them in the school play.
Sing in the church choir.
But to be a professional actor at a young age is...
It's dangerous in extremely insidious ways that are very, very hard to perceive when it's happening.
That's a great way to put it.
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.