"Pretending to be other people is my game……" — John Hurt
"Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting."
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29 Quotes by John Hurt
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Also the wonderful thing about film, you can see light at the end of the tunnel. You did realize that…
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I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing…
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As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.
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I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about…
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I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with…
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I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film.
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I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what…
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I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the…
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I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order…
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If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my…
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We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know…
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I've spent a great deal of my life doing independent film, and that is partly because the subject matter interests…
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