All John Hurt Quotes
- 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… End
- 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… Acting
- As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well. Beckett
- 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… Actor
- 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… Anything Like
- I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film. Favourite
- 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… Easily
- I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word. Ambition
- 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… Angeles
- 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. Cinema
- 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… All
- 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… Bases
- 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… Decent
- It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor. Career
- Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort. Day
- 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. Bound
- It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer. Ambition
- Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting. Acting
- My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure. Acting
- 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… Afraid
- Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light,… Anything Else
- It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers… Business
- Film is not literature - the image on screen is the information you get. Film
- One thing that is likely to make you lose touch is if you keep in touch with the past too much. Likely
- The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department. Actor