John Hurt Quotes
Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.
Quotes to Explore
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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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My popularity, my happiness and sense of worth depend to no small extent upon my skill in dealing with people.
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Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
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History is important but... I just wanna sing Beyonce songs all day long in front of a mirror.
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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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You can cry, ain't no shame in it.
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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.
