Ethan Hawke has been acting since he was a teenager.

Now at 55, he has his first Oscar nomination for Best Actor for his role in the film, Blue Moon.

Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown sat down with Hawk recently in New York for our arts and culture series, Canvas.

Okay, Best Line in Casablanca.

Oh, nobody ever loved me that much. Okay, best line in Casablanca.

Nobody ever loved me that much.

Isn't that magnificent?

In the movie Blue Moon, set almost entirely on one night at Broadway's famed Sardi's

restaurant, a nearly unrecognizable Ethan Hawk plays Lorenz Larry Hart, one of the most brilliant

lyricists in musical theater history.

But now at a party not celebrating him, he knows his time has passed.

And there's little left but to drink, talk, and talk some more, often with the bartender,

played by Bobby Conavale.

And really, who's ever been loved enough? Who's ever been loved half enough? Would you get me a shot?

You talk and I talk and talk and talk.

Yeah.

I had this feeling about the performance that it, he walks into this opening night party the way a human being walks in

front of a firing squad. The only way to stop it is to talk. So you had a lot of lines to learn

for one day. That's true too.

The real Lorenz Hart was part of the Rogers and Heart team that wrote such indelible songs

as My Funny Valentine, The Lady is a Tramp,

and yes, Blue Moon.

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