John Hurt Quotes

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• Also the wonderful thing about film, you can see light at the end of the tunnel. You did realize that it is going to come…
• I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost…
• As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.
• I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in…
• I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film…
• I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film.
• I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you…
• I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.
• I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money…
• If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind.
• We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like…
• I've spent a great deal of my life doing independent film, and that is partly because the subject matter interests me and partly because that…
• I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How…
• It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.
• Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.
• If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.
• It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.
• Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.
• My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.
• My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who…

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