Ethan Hawke

“The goal is not to be perfect by the end, the goal is to be better tomorrow.”

“I find that the best way to do things is to just do them.”

“I don't believe in the idea of 'I'm a movie star.' I'm an actor. I'm a writer. I'm a director.”

“The older you get, the more you realize that it's not what you did, it's what you didn't do.”

“Don't take yourself so seriously. It's really not that important.”

“Creativity is the great rebellion. It’s the thing that you can do to make your life more interesting.”

“The first line of any good story is a promise.”

“We are the stories we tell ourselves.”

“Art is not a luxury, it's a necessity. It's how we make sense of our lives.”

“Success is a beast. And it actually puts the blame on you when you don't have it.”

“I've discovered that the less I say, the more I'm heard.”

“Any time you are with a group of people, you are in the presence of an immense amount of talent, creativity, and genius.”

“I think the only way to be an artist is to be a student.”

“What is a hero? It's someone who is willing to give their life for something bigger than themselves.”

“The world is not a meritocracy. It's a series of fortunate and unfortunate accidents.”

“The point is to be a human being, to be a person who thinks, to be a person who cares.”