John Hurt Quotes

It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.

John Hurt

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• I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Give
  • Believer
  • Comeback

• Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Alone
  • Learn

• For mascara, I'll just use whatever I have in my bag. I'll use anything. I feel like, from drugstores to a Saks, they are all the same to me.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Use

• When I was 6, I opened my mouth and didn't stop singing. I had a voice and wanted to use it.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Stop
  • Singing
  • Voice

• If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Men
  • Society
  • Freedom

• Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • May
  • Freedom
  • Anger

• Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • World
  • Relationship
  • Unique

• Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.

  

  Om Puri
  • Never
  • Place
  • Fat

• What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • America
  • Best
  • Failure

• I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.' She said, 'No dear, it gets harder'.

  

  Val McDermid
  • She
  • You
  • Said

• I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Independent
  • German
  • Tradition

• Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • People
  • Live
  • Reality

• I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Myself
  • Hell
  • Being Myself

• I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Life
  • Know
  • I Can

• The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Bad
  • Motivated
  • News

• Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Say
  • Much
  • Gonna

• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Notes
  • Pure
  • Anywhere

• I'm far happier now than when it seemed I was on the cover of every magazine in the land.

  

  Jim Nabors

• Aw:North America|Anything in life is possible and YOU make it happen'! - Jack LaLanne: Live young forever, Robert Kennedy Publishing, Mississauga 2009, P. 15

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Life
  • Live
  • America

• 9/11 was a hugely overblown event that only assumed its overarching importance a) because it was done to the United States and b) because of the way the U.S. reacted.

  

  Martin Jacques
  • Done

• Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • World
  • Giving
  • Mathematics

• You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go into apprenticeship. And actually when I left home, home was a restaurant - like I said, my mother was a chef. So I can't remember any time in my life, from age 5, 6, that I wasn't in a kitchen.

  

  Jacques Pepin
  • Life
  • Time
  • Home

• It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.

  

  John Hurt
  • May
  • Career