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
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I got fired, I think, because I just didn't fulfill the director's and the writer's idea of what the part should've been. In rehearsals, I do a lot of searching around, I try not to perform and I really feel confident in what I'm doing. I mean, you can go first day and perform and probably won't go further than that. But the way that we were all trained in the Fifties and Sixties, you needed to keep searching and so, I was doing that, and they decided that I was just taking too much time.
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You have a powerful weapon working for you. For you there is no tomorrow and that makes you all very dangerous people!
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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.
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My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.
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My wife and I take what we call our Friday comedy day off. We watch standup comics on TV. The raunchier the better. We love Eddie Izzard.
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Five players on the floor functioning as a single unit: team, team, team-no one more important than the other.
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Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. (as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994)
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If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.
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Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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That's the great thing about plankton. It pretty much keeps to itself.