Gene Hackman

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Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.

I do not like assassins, or men of low character.

I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.

If I start to become a star, I'll lose contact with the normal guys I play best.

If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.... (more Gene Hackman quotes)

Gene Hackman trivia

As a young man,Hackman attended a showing of the movie "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951) and was impressed by the performance of Marlon Brando due to his naturalism and the fact that he didn't look like what a movie star typically looked like in the 1950s.After exiting the theater,he told his father that he wanted to be an actor.

Quote Gene Hackman:"I came to New York when I was 25,and I worked at Howard Johnson's in Times Square,where I... (more Gene Hackman trivia)

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