John Hurt

I can't say that I wouldn't prefer to make small films, basically because I think they are probably more interesting in terms…

— John Hurt

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it's being able - I can't tell…

— John Hurt

My surname certainly suggests a man whose destiny has always been injury.

— John Hurt

I got used to [ Lars Von Trier] doing the narration for 'Dogville' and 'Manderley.' And I said to him I do…

— John Hurt

The first thing you have to get used to in any kind of acting is the ability to make a fool of…

— John Hurt

One wonders sometimes, looking at the world, how it's dealing with itself. There are days when you wake up and you feel…

— John Hurt

To me, nothing ever feels like a sure thing. I cling to that because it's very important you don't ever think anything…

— John Hurt

Things come in a quieter way to me. It's not laziness, and it's not diffidence. I just know how far you have…

— John Hurt

I've spent a great deal of my life doing independent film, and that is partly because the subject matter interests me and…

— John Hurt

I find myself more interested in producing. Not because I'm interested in the financial side of it, but just getting together the…

— John Hurt

Actors are not always the best judges. We have a peculiar idea of what we think we are, and sometimes it's best…

— John Hurt

My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.

— John Hurt

I've done all sorts of children's things before, but none as big as 'Harry Potter.'

— John Hurt

Really, I'm only alive out of curiosity. I'm very curious about where we're all marching.

— John Hurt

You carry that through and adapt it to a camera lens, but you're quite right, you cannot be sure of what an…

— John Hurt

I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think…

— John Hurt

It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.

— John Hurt

We're all far too afraid of being so arrogant to say "Either you can or you can't."

— John Hurt

I loathed school. I don't have an academic mind, and besides I was so bored by my teachers! How teachers can take…

— John Hurt

I'd say the film to avoid is a director's second film, particularly if his first film was a big success. The second…

— John Hurt

How my film career happened, I don't know. It was unplanned. I'd been in films and TV throughout the Sixties and early…

— John Hurt

Be true to what you want to say, or whatever style it is that you've chosen or genre you've chosen. Do it…

— John Hurt

You collect as much information as you can and then you put it into the mulberry of your mind and hope that…

— John Hurt

With [Fred] Zinnemann I did A Man For All Seasons. He was my screen godfather. I'm happy to say he was.

— John Hurt

I've never changed the way I live. I still walk the streets; I don't give a damn. And everyone's very nice to…

— John Hurt