Gene Hackman Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Gene Hackman:

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

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.

Gene Hackman

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.

Gene Hackman

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

Gene Hackman

Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.

Gene Hackman

I'm disappointed that success hasn't been a Himalayan feeling.

Gene Hackman

Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.

Gene Hackman

You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, 'Why didn't I choose something else?' But overall I'm pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor.

Gene Hackman

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.

Gene Hackman

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

Gene Hackman

I'm not a sentimental guy.

Gene Hackman

I do not like assassins, or men of low character.

Gene Hackman

I write in the morning from about eight till noon, and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I start off by going over what I had done the previous day, which my wife has happily typed up for me.

Gene Hackman

Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn.

Gene Hackman