Ethan Hawke movie quotes

“Sometimes I dream about being a good father and a good husband. And sometimes it feels really close. But then other times it seems silly like it would ruin my whole life. And it's not just a fear of commitment or that I'm incapable of caring or loving because... I can. It's just that, if I'm totally honest with myself I think I'd rather die...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“This is my heart and it’s broken.”
Ethan Hawke - Finnegan Bell

“Maybe what I'm saying is, is the world might be evolving the way a person evolves. Right? Like, I mean, me for example. Am I getting worse? Am I improving? I don't know. When I was younger, I was healthier, but I was, uh, whacked with insecurity, you know? Now I'm older and my problems are deeper, but I'm more equipped to handle them.”
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“What is love, if it's not respect, trust, admiration? And I felt all those things. So cut to the present tense: I feel like I'm running a small nursery with somebody I used to date.”
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“- Jesse: I have an admittedly insane idea, but if I don't ask you this it's just, uh, you know, it's gonna haunt me the rest of my life.
- Celine: What?
- Jesse: Um... I want to keep talking to you, y'know. I have no idea what your situation is, but, uh, but I feel like we have some kind of, uh, connection. Right?
- Celine: Yeah, me too.”
Ethan Hawke - Jesse
Julie Delpy - Céline

“I want to live; as opposed to I don't want to die.”
Ethan Hawke - Sgt. Jake Roenick

“People have these romantic projections they put on everything. That's not based on any kind of reality.”
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“For someone who was never meant for this world, I must confess I'm suddenly having a hard time leaving it. Of course, they say every atom in our bodies was once part of a star. Maybe I'm not leaving... maybe I'm going home.”
Ethan Hawke - Vincent Freeman

“Remember making love with those pictures of the dead people around us? Let's face it, Illeana, an ordinary person does not love that as much as we did.”
Ethan Hawke - Costa

“- Jack Conroy: Aren't you going to say anything?
- Alex Larson: You know what?
- Jack Conroy: What?
- Alex Larson: I never really liked the bastard.”

Ethan Hawke - Jack
Klaus Maria Brandauer - Alex

“- Alonzo: I've got five. All boys. You ever need a son, you let me know. I'll hook your old lady up. I can't miss.
- Jake: Can we not talk about my family?
- Alonzo: That's cool, I respect that. I remember what it was to have a pretty young bride. You probably still fuck her face to face, don't you?”
Denzel Washington - Alonzo
Ethan Hawke - Jake

“Most people, you know, a lot of people talk about past lives and things like that, you know? And even if they don't believe it in some specific way, you know, people have some kind of notion of an eternal soul, right?”
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“Nobody is gonna be everything to you, and that ultimately it's just a simple action of committing yourself, meeting your responsibilities that matters.”
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“What are we talking about, really? Getting high? No. We're talking about a journey, man. A subconscious safari. A mental expedition, a mind trek. This planet has been raped, pillaged and fucked! And the mind is the only uncharted territory.”
Ethan Hawke - Sgt. Jake Roenick

“I'm not going to tell the story the way it happened. I'm going to tell it the way I remember it.”
Ethan Hawke - Finnegan Bell

“- Jack Conroy: Is there any good reason why we can't just bury him here? I don't think he'll know the difference.
- Alex Larson: I gave him my word.”
Ethan Hawke - Jack
Klaus Maria Brandauer - Alex

“- Jake: Who are you?
- Alonzo: I'm the zig-zag man, who the fuck are you?
- Jake: I'm a cop.
- Alonzo: Watch out... don't shoot nobody.”
Ethan Hawke - Jake
Denzel Washington - Alonzo

“- Felipe Restano: What's more important to you, rugby or girls?
- Nando Parrado: Girls. You?
- Felipe Restano: Girls.
- Nando Parrado: But when I'm playing rugby, rugby's the most important thing.
- Felipe Restano: Yeah, unless girls are watching.
- Nando Parrado: Right.”
Josh Lucas - Felipe Restano
Ethan Hawke - Nando Parrado

“At least now we don't have to pretend that each new sexual experience is a life-altering event.”

Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“- Vincent: A year is a long time.
- Irene: Not so long. Just once around the sun.”
Ethan Hawke - Vincent Freeman
Uma Thurman - Irene Cassini

“I feel like if someone were to touch me, I'd dissolve into molecules.”
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“- Irene: I don't even know who you are.
- Vincent: I'm the same person I was yesterday.
- Irene: I can't hear any more of your lies Jerome...
- Vincent: My name is Vincent, all right? Vincent Anton Freeman, and I'm a faith birth or a degenerate, whatever you want to call it; but I am not a murderer!”

Uma Thurman - Irene Cassini
Ethan Hawke - Vincent Freeman

“- Anton Freeman: You've committed fraud. Listen, you're in a lot of trouble, Vincent. I can get you out of here...
- Vincent: Do you have any idea what it took to get in here?”

Loren Dean - Anton Freeman
Ethan Hawke - Vincent Freeman

“- Ben Crandall: If this is all a dream, what's gonna happen when we wake up?
- Wolfgang Müller: I don't know, but I can't wait to find out.”
Ethan Hawke - Ben Crandall
River Phoenix - Wolfgang Müller

“Do you know what it is that we've lived this long the way we have? Seventy days? That we climbed this mountain. You know what it is? It's impossible. It's impossible and we did it. I'm proud to be a man on a day like this. Alive. That I lived to see it, and see it in such a place. Take it in. I love you, man. Look, it's magnificent. It's God....” (continue)(continue reading)

Ethan Hawke - Nando Parrado