John Hurt Quotes
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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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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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.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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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.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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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.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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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?
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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.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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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.
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I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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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.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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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.'
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt.
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You know, once somebody knows you can sing Elphaba, it's like being able to sing Evita - people shut up about it already.
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New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola.
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I've been an actor since I was a kid.
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Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.
