Ethan Hawke movie quotes

“- German: You serious about this? I hope you're not wasting my time.
- Vincent: No, I... I'd give 100 percent.
- German: That'll get you half way there.”
Tony Shalhoub - German
Ethan Hawke - Vincent Freeman

“There's these breeds of monkeys, right, and all they do is have sex, all the time, you know? And they turn out to be the least violent, the most peaceful, the most happy, you know? So maybe fooling around isn't so bad.”
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“- Lelaina Pierce: I was really going to be somebody by the time I was 23.
- Troy Dyer: Honey, all you have to be by the time you're 23 is yourself.
- Lelaina Pierce: I don't know who that is anymore.”
Winona Ryder - Lelaina Pierce
Ethan Hawke - Troy Dyer

“I take pleasure in the details. You know... a Quarter-Pounder with cheese, those are good, the sky about ten minutes before it starts to rain, the moment where your laughter become a cackle... and I, I sit back and I smoke my Camel Straights and I ride my own melt.”
Ethan Hawke - Troy Dyer

“Let's say that you and I were together all the time, then you'd start to hate a lot of my mannerisms. The way every time we would have people over, uh, I'd be insecure, and I'd get a little too drunk. Or, uh, the way I'd tell the same stupid pseudo-intellectual story again, and again. Y'see, I've heard all those stories. So of course I'm sick of...” (continue)(continue reading)

Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“I kind of see this all love as this, escape for two people who don't know how to be alone. People always talk about how love is this totally unselfish, giving thing, but if you think about it, there's nothing more selfish.”
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“- Vincent: My God, are you going to tell me what I can and can't do now? In case you haven't noticed, I don't need anymore rescuing, but you did once.
- Anton: You didn't rescue me. I rescued myself.
- Vincent: Who are you trying to fool?
- Anton: You want me to prove it to you? Ok, I'll prove it to you!”
Ethan Hawke - Vincent Freeman
Loren Dean - Anton Freeman

“- Finnegan Bell: That's a big cat! That's the biggest cat I've ever seen! What do you feed it?
- Ms. Dinsmoor: Other cats.”
Ethan Hawke - Finnegan Bell

“I'll never understand what possessed my mother to put her faith in God's hands, rather than her local geneticist.”
Ethan Hawke - Vincent Freeman

“- Vincent: I can't go anywhere without seeing my own face. They'll recognize me.
- Jerome: They won't recognize you.
- Vincent: They'll recognize me.
- Jerome: I don't recognize you.”
Ethan Hawke - Vincent Freeman
Jude Law - Jerome Eugene Morrow

“- Vincent: How the hell did you get up here?
- Jerome: Oh, I could always walk... I've been faking it.”
Ethan Hawke - Vincent Freeman
Jude Law - Jerome Eugene Morrow

“You don’t have to be embarrassed by me anymore. I’m rich! Isn’t that what you want? Isn’t it great? Are we happy now?”
Ethan Hawke - Finnegan Bell

“- Nando Parrado: Better go tell the others.
- Antonio Balbi: I can't. It'll kill everybody's hope.
- Nando Parrado: Well, what's so great about hope?”

Ethan Hawke - Nando Parrado
Vincent Spano - Antonio Balbi

“He said at that profound moment of birth, he was watching this child, experiencing life for the first time, I mean, trying to take its first breath... all he could think about was that he was looking at something that was gonna die someday. He just couldn't get it out of his head. And I think that's so true, I mean, all... everything is so...” (continue)(continue reading)

Ethan Hawke - Jesse

I mean, just once, I'd love to see, some little old lady save up all her money, to go to the fortune teller, and she'd get there, all excited about hearing her future, and the woman would say, "Um-humm. Tomorrow, and all your remaining days will be exactly like today. A tedious collection of hours. And you will have no new passions, and no new... (continue)(continue reading)
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“- Roberto Canessa: We're gonna die, you know.
- Nando Parrado: Maybe. But if we die, we're gonna die walking.”

Josh Hamilton - Roberto Canessa
Ethan Hawke - Nando Parrado

“- Director Josef: You keep your work station so clean, Jerome.
- Vincent: It's next to godliness. Isn't that what they say?”
Gore Vidal - Director Josef
Ethan Hawke - Vincent Freeman