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Gene Hackman Biography

Eugene Allen Hackman (born January 30, 1930) is a retired American actor and novelist. In a career that spanned nearly five decades, Hackman was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning Best Actor in The French Connection and Best Supporting Actor in Unforgiven. He won three Golden Globes and two BAFTAs.

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Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than life - that's exciting.

Convince, Honesty, Life, People, Real

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

Guy, Lose, Play, Stars, Start

Don't piss in my ear and tell me it's raining.

Ear, Ears, Piss, Rain, Raining, Tell

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.

Courage, Difference, Differences, Hero, Sideways, Step

Five players on the floor functioning as a single unit: team, team, team-no one more important than the other.

Basketball, Five, Floor, Player, Single, Team

I don't like to talk about myself that much.

Like, Talk

I write in the morning from about eight till noon, and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I start off by going over what I had done the previous day, which my wife has happily typed up for me.

Eight, Happily, Morning, Previous, Typed, Writing

Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.

Guess, Guy, Hollywood, Saw, Saws

I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven years later, I got my first job.

Half, Jobs, Marine, New York, Right, York

My early days in Broadway were all comedies. I never did a straight play on Broadway.

Broadway, Comedies, Comedy, Play, Straight

Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn.

Fun, Learn, Novel, Pages, Script, Scripts

That's the great thing about plankton. It pretty much keeps to itself.

Great Things, Keeps, Plankton, Pretty, Replacements

Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.

Children, Done, Like, Parent, Say

If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.

Human, Look, Looks, Lost, Stars

My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.

Grandfather, Uncle, Uncles, Writers, Writing

I don't see myself as a violent guy.

Guy, See, Violent

Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. (as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994)

1994, Earp, Earpp, Nothing, Stranger, Strangers

The worst job I ever had was working nights in the Chrysler Building. I was part of a team of about five guys, and we polished the leather furniture.

Job, Jobs, Leather, Night, Team, Worst

Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.

Actors, Dysfunctional Family, Number, Numbers, Pretty, Sired

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

Assassins, Character, Like, Low, Men

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