John Hawkes

I think we're all mysteries to ourselves.

I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do.

Being a kid, as all kids do, you feel out of place or like kind of a freak. You wake up feeling like your head got put onto someone else's body that day.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

I don't think they're going to pay me to play Mufasa.

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.