“As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to pla...” — John Hawkes Quote

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

In the time between when you first read a script and are offered the role and the time when you begin to shoot, I really love putting in the time and work on that and getting a solid backstory to a character and researching all that I can about what that person does for a vocation or their upbringing or where they're from.

I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!

If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending.

I thought that ending Glass-Steagall was a mistake.

I'm not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.

Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.

When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the quiet guy and making your mom happy.