Ethan Hawke Net Worth

Ethan Hawke's Quotes

• I think most people are good at more things than the world gives them the opportunity to do.
• The kindest compliments I have ever heard are when cops tell me Training Day (2001) and Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) inspired them to become cops. The funniest compliments I have ever heard are when people tell me that "I love your band Sugar Ray".
• But the truth is, I've never wanted to be a movie star - and I've been pretty clear about that.
• People look at your life and see things as a big deal that aren't a big deal to you. What I mean is, the chapter breaks are different for me. I'll read about my divorce, and what people think about it, and, well, it's so inaccurate, usually, but the fact is, I wouldn't want it to be accurate. Because it's my truth. When I was younger, it was more important to me to come off well. Now, I just want to try to be good at what I do.
• The devil is seductive, and so guns are glorious in the culture. I understand there's a case to be made. For instance, Spike Lee said something like this, that you can't have a scene with drugs in a film that doesn't secretly make you want to do drugs. In the same vein, it's hard to make a movie that's anti-violence because the very nature of photographing violence eroticises it. But I'm not so sold that that's true.

Interesting Facts about Ethan Hawke

1. Attended West Windsor-Plainsboro High School in central New Jersey, but is not pictured in the yearbook (1984-1986).
2. Attended and graduated from the Hun School of Princeton in Princeton, New Jersey (1988).
3. Published his first novel, "The Hottest State" (1996). The novel sold for $400,000 to Little, Brown and Company. A decade later, wrote & directed a film adaptation: The Hottest State (2006).
4. Was in a production of "Great Expectations" at West Windsor Plainsboro High School.
5. Was accepted by Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Drama in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but dropped out after only 5 months.
6. Proposed to ex-wife Uma Thurman twice before she said yes.
7. Childhood friends with director Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects (1995), X-Men (2000)).
8. His cat appeared in Lisa Loeb's music video "Stay (I Missed You)", which he directed.
9. Has appeared in two film adaptations of William Wharton novels: Dad (1989) and A Midnight Clear (1992).
10. He was the original choice to play FBI Agent Will Graham in Red Dragon (2002), but turned the role down to take time off from making movies.
11. His parents were University of Texas students when Ethan was born, and they separated when he was three.
12. Says that he is constantly mistaken for Mark McGrath from the band Sugar Ray so often that he signs autographs as "Mark McGrath" and, apparently, the same thing happens to Mark McGrath who, in turn, signs autographs as "Ethan Hawke" to fans.
13. Met and became friends with River Phoenix during the making of Explorers (1985).
14. When he was in the seventh grade, he played Lon in West Windsor-Plainsboro junior high school production of the play "Meet Me in St. Louis".
15. Remains close friends with Dead Poets Society (1989) co-stars, Robert Sean Leonard and Josh Charles. Because of that movie's theme - triumph of the human spirit - Hawke laughingly refers to it as "One Flew Over the Robin's Nest" (due in part to Robin Williams's starring role).
16. Attended the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn, New York, for one year.
17. First cousin twice removed of Tennessee Williams. Hawke's great grandfather and Williams' father were brothers.
18. Close friends with actor/director Frank Whaley, whom he met while filming A Midnight Clear (1992).
19. On Father's Day 2004, he went to a New York Yankees game with his children.
20. Is a huge fan of the Star Wars movie series.