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Top 30 Gene Hackman Quotes (2025 Update)

Gene Hackman Quote: “Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute.”

1. “Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute.”

— Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman Quote: “I don’t trust air I can’t see.”

2. “I don’t trust air I can’t see.”

— Gene Hackman

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

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

— Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman Quote: “The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.”

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

— Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman Quote: “I do not like assassins, or men of low character.”

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

— Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

— Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman Quote: “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.”

7. “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

Gene Hackman Quote: “That’s the great thing about plankton. It pretty much keeps to itself.”

8. “That’s the great thing about plankton. It pretty much keeps to itself.”

— Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

— Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman Quote: “Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.”

10. “Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.”

— Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman Quote: “Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance.”

11. “Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance.”

— Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

— Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman Quote: “I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine.”

14. “I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine.”

— Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

— Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman Quote: “I’m disappointed that success hasn’t been a Himalayan feeling.”

16. “I’m disappointed that success hasn’t been a Himalayan feeling.”

— Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman Quote: “My wife and I take what we call our Friday comedy day off. We watch standup comics on TV. The raunchier the better. We love Eddie Izzard.”

17. “My wife and I take what we call our Friday comedy day off. We watch standup comics on TV. The raunchier the better. We love Eddie Izzard.”

— Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman Quote: “I don’t like to talk about myself that much.”

18. “I don’t like to talk about myself that much.”

— Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman Quote: “I left home when I was 16 because I was looking for adventure.”

19. “I left home when I was 16 because I was looking for adventure.”

— Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

— Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman Quote: “I don’t see myself as a violent guy.”

21. “I don’t see myself as a violent guy.”

— Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman Quote: “Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.”

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

— Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

— Gene Hackman

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Gene Hackman Quote: “If you look at yourself as a star, you’ve already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.”

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

— Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman Quote: “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.”

25. “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.”

— Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman Quote: “I lost touch with my son in terms of advice early on. Maybe it had to do with being gone so much, doing location films when he was at an age where he needed support and guidance.”

26. “I lost touch with my son in terms of advice early on. Maybe it had to do with being gone so much, doing location films when he was at an age where he needed support and guidance.”

— Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman Quote: “I’m not a sentimental guy.”

27. “I’m not a sentimental guy.”

— Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman Quote: “If I start to become a star, I’ll lose contact with the normal guys I play best.”

28. “If I start to become a star, I’ll lose contact with the normal guys I play best.”

— Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman Quote: “You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, ‘Why didn’t I choose something else?’ But overall I’m pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor.”

29. “You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, ‘Why didn’t I choose something else?’ But overall I’m pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor.”

— Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman Quote: “I was trained to be an actor, not a star.”

30. “I was trained to be an actor, not a star.”

— Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman Quote: “My early days in Broadway were all comedies. I never did a straight play on Broadway.”

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

— Gene Hackman

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