Gene Hackman
Gene Hackman
Eugene Allen "Gene" Hackmanis a retired American actor and novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth30 January 1930
CitySan Bernardino, CA
CountryUnited States of America
home adventure left
I left home when I was 16 because I was looking for adventure.
marine trouble authority
I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine.
honesty real people
Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than life - that's exciting.
eye tired men
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.
basketball team player
Five players on the floor functioning as a single unit: team, team, team-no one more important than the other.
stars actors
I was trained to be an actor, not a star.
stranger
Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. (as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994)
stars looks portrayal
If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.
numbers actors dysfunctional-family
Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.
guy violent
I don't see myself as a violent guy.
fun pages scripts
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.
careers choices actors
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.
ducks feet water
Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute.
replacements plankton great-things
That's the great thing about plankton. It pretty much keeps to itself.