Gene Hackman Quotes

"You have a powerful weapon working for you. For you there is no tomorrow and that makes you all very dangerous people!"
-Gene Hackman

"I do not like assassins, or men of low character."
-Gene Hackman

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

"[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."
-Gene Hackman

"Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors."
-Gene Hackman

"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."
-Gene Hackman