Gene Hackman Quotes

My Early Days In Broadway Were All Comedies. I Never Did A Straight Play On Broadway.

Five Players On The Floor Functioning As A Single Unit: Team, Team, Team-no One More Important Than The Other.

I Lost Touch With My Son In Terms Of Advice Early On. Maybe It Had To Do With Being Gone So Much, Doing Location Films When He Was At An Age Where He Needed Support And Guidance.

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.

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.

I Don't See Myself As A Violent Guy.

If I Start To Become A Star, I'll Lose Contact With The Normal Guys I Play Best.

I Don't Like To Talk About Myself That Much.

I Left Home When I Was 16 Because I Was Looking For Adventure.

I Was Trained To Be An Actor, Not A Star.

I Went In The Marines When I Was 16. I Spent Four And A Half Years In The Marines And Then Came Right To New York To Be An Actor. And Then Seven Years Later, I Got My First Job.

Nothing Counts So Much As Family, The Rest Are Just Strangers. (as Nicholas Earpp In Wyatt Earp, 1994)