If you can channel the best part of you that is bigger than yourself, where it’s not about your ego and not about getting ahead, then you can have fun and you aren’t jealous of others. You see other people's talent as another branch of your own. You can keep it rooted in joy. Life is long and there are plenty of opportunities to make mistakes. The point of it all is to learn.

" The performance earned Hawke his first Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Play. The following year Hawke again received critical praise this time for his performance in Richard Linklater's 1995 drama Before Sunrise. 2005–present

2005 saw Hawke star in the action thriller Assault on Precinct 13 a loose remake of John Carpenter's 1976 film of the same title with an updated plot.

In 1995 he starred in the romantic drama Before Sunrise and later in the 2004 sequel Before Sunset. Ethan Green Hawke (born November 6 1970) is an American actor writer and director. In 2001 Hawke was cast as a rookie police officer in Training Day for which he received a Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category.