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Gene Hackman Quotes
• I do not like assassins, or men of low character.
• You have a powerful weapon working for you. For you there is no tomorrow and that makes you all very dangerous people!
• 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.
• It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.
• The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.
• Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.
• [Did the two have any sense back then that they would be such massively successful and accomplished actors?] I would've been happy with an off, off Broadway job and that's what happened, ... We both started in something like that.
• [Asked what changed in the tide to allow them to be stars, Hoffman laughs and replies,] A decline in the culture. ... Everyone has a chance if you're lucky enough to find the property and we all three individually were very fortunate.
Gene Hackman Filmography
2003 - Runaway Jury
2001 - Behind Enemy Lines
2001 - The Royal Tenenbaums
2001 - Heist
2001 - Heartbreakers
2000 - The Replacements
2000 - Under Suspicion
1998 - Antz
1998 - Enemy Of The State
1998 - Twilight
1997 - Absolute Power
1996 - The Chamber
1996 - Extreme Measures
1996 - The Birdcage
1995 - Get Shorty
1995 - Crimson Tide
1995 - The Quick And The Dead
1994 - Wyatt Earp
1993 - Geronimo: An American Legend
1993 - The Firm
1992 - Unforgiven
1991 - Company Business
1991 - Class Action
1990 - Narrow Margin
1990 - Postcards From The Edge
1990 - Loose Cannons
1989 - The Package
1988 - Split Decisions
1988 - Full Moon In Blue Water
1988 - Another Woman
1988 - Cactus Flower
1988 - Mississippi Burning
1988 - Bat*21
1987 - Superman IV
1987 - No Way Out
1986 - Hoosiers
1986 - Power
1985 - Target
1985 - Twice in a Lifetime
1984 - Misunderstood
1984 - Eureka
1983 - Uncommon Valour
1983 - Two Of a Kind
1983 - Under Fire
1981 - Reds
1981 - All Night Long
1980 - Superman II
1978 - SUperman
1977 - March Or Die
1977 - A Bridge Too Far
1977 - The Domino Principle
1975 - Bite The Bullet
1975 - Night Moves
1975 - Lady Luck
1975 - The French Connection II
1974 - Zandy's Bride
1974 - Young Frankenstein
1974 - The Conversation
1973 - Scarecrow
1972 - Cisco Pike
1972 - The Poseidon Adventure
1972 - Prime Cut
1971 - The French Connection
1971 - The Hunting Party
1971 - Doctors Wives
1970 - I Never Sang for My Father
1969 - Marooned
1969 - Downhill Racer
1969 - The Gypsy Moths
1969 - Riot
1968 - The Split
1967 - Bonnie & Clyde
1967 - First To Fight
1967 - A Covenant With Death
1967 - Community Shelter Planning
1967 - Banning
1966 - Hawaii
1964 - Lilith
1961 - Mad Dog Coll
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