John Hurt Quotes
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
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I didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude... I didn't have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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I still miss my first car. Not a glamorous ride, but I must've put 60,000 miles in road trips on that thing.
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I don't really get into that whole red-blue-conservative-liberal because I can't tell them apart. They all seem inept. So, for me, it's not something I focus on at all. I probably should be more political than I am. I just don't care.
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I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it.
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Nothing, literally nothing, makes me feel like I'm back to my body more than Pilates.
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I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.
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I don't care about the length of anything I play, as long as it's a good character.
