The best Quotes by Gene Hackman

The best Quotes by Gene Hackman

Eugene Allen Hackman (born January 30, 1930) is an American retired actor and novelist. Hackman's two Academy Awards wins include one for Best Actor for his role as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in William Friedkin's acclaimed thriller The French Connection (1971), and the other for Best Supporting Actor playing "Little" Bill Daggett in Clint Eastwood's Western film Unforgiven (1992).

Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.

If I start to become a star, I'll lose contact with the normal guys I play best.

If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.

Quotes about Gene Hackman

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The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way.

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My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

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I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

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I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

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I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.

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Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese.

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I hate the word homophobia. It's not a phobia, you are not scared, you are an a-shole!

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Challenge yourself; it's the only path which leads to growth.

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Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

For the soul, laughing is what oxygen is for the lungs.

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It's not about the absence of fear. It's overcoming it.

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If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

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My father always said, "Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf" - so I make sure I read.

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We think too much and feel too little.

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If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?

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One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

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I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

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