William Hurt Quotes

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• The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing, which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.
• The greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.
• The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.
• Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.
• David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.
• I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go.
• Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the…
• I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older…
• I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.
• The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done
• I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily
• I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out
• If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character
• Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure
• I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people
• I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations
• I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process
• I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision
• Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying…
• I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's…

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