John Hurt Quotes

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

John Hurt

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• I feel fine as long I'm not running around.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Long
  • Running
  • Feel

• My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.

  

  Randall Park
  • Want
  • Like
  • See

• Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Up
  • She
  • Father

• Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Man
  • Years
  • Errors

• It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Life
  • Hard
  • Again

• In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Life
  • Great
  • Game

• Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Military
  • Two
  • Fiji

• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • People
  • Life
  • Small

• The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Up
  • Work
  • Single

• I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Time
  • Long
  • Real

• We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Universe
  • Balance
  • Unknown

• I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Time
  • Long
  • Kids

• Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Doubt
  • Without
  • Machinery

• I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'

  

  Zach LaVine
  • She
  • Remember
  • Myself

• In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Guy
  • Way
  • Weird

• People who look for the first time through a microscope say, 'Now I see this, and then I see that,' and even a skilled observer can be fooled. On these observations I have spent more time than many will believe, but I have done them with joy, and I have taken no notice of those who have said, 'Why take so much trouble,' and, 'What good is it?'

  

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I really trust the authenticity of real people and my job is to get them to be themselves in front of the camera. Often what happens is, you'll get a newcomer in front of the camera and they'll freeze up or they imitate actors or other performances that they've admired and so they stop becoming themselves. And so my job as the director is just to always return them to what I first saw in them, which was simply an uncensored human being.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • People
  • Job
  • Camera

• You don't want to believe everything you hear.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Believe
  • Hear
  • Don't Want

• Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

  

  John Hurt
  • People
  • Business
  • Game