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John Hawkes

"I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am."

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"I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am."

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Donna Grant

"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."

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Donna Grant

"I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent."

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Donna Grant

"I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."

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Donna Grant

"Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly."

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Donna Grant

"I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits."

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Donna Grant

"I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by."

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Donna Grant

"We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do."

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Donna Grant

"My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?"

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Donna Grant

"An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox."

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Donna Grant

"TV is very much a producer and writer or creator-driven machine in the States. And I'm the kind of actor that needs to be pushed and have someone on my case a little bit, so I suffer from that."

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John Hawkes
"I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do."

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John Hawkes
"I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am."

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John Hawkes
"I do all kinds of roles - nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho - and occasionally someone kind of normal. It's weird, when I lived in Austin I was always cast as pretty normal people. But when I moved to Los Angeles I was immediately branded a psycho."

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John Hawkes
"You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help."

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John Hawkes
"For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change."

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

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