Ethan Hawke Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

I kill flies, I eat meat, you know, whatever.

My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality.

There's something at the root of our love-hate relationship with celebrity that I think has the makings, if you could do it in a really substantive way, of a great modern American novel. And it's something I know a lot about, and so I feel like that's the book that I should write.

Trivia

He is a big fan of the Star Wars movie series.

Remains close friends with Dead Poets Society (1989) co-stars, Robert Sean Leonard and Josh Charles.

He met and became friends with River Phoenix during the making of Explorers (1985).

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.

Welcomed second child, Levon, a boy on January 15, 2002. The baby weighed 7lbs 15oz.

Was accepted by Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Drama in Pittsburgh, PA, but dropped out after only 5 months.

Published his first novel, "The Hottest State", in 1996 (the novel sold for $400,000 to Little, Brown and Company).

He attended West Windsor-Plainsboro High School in Central New Jersey, but is not pictured in the yearbook (1984-86).