John Hurt Quotes

How my film career happened, I don't know. It was unplanned. I'd been in films and TV throughout the Sixties and early Seventies, but it was really 'The Naked Civil Servant' in 1975 that put me on the radar.

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• You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Up
  • God
  • Man

• I brought several national projects to Katihar.

  

  Tariq Anwar
  • Projects
  • Brought
  • Several

• Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Ideas
  • Enemy
  • Try

• Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Sometimes
  • Fake
  • Credit

• I believe in the free enterprise system.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Believe
  • Free
  • I Believe

• I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Plan
  • Draw

• When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• When I introduce you to somebody, his name is Big Pun. When I introduce you to somebody, his name is DJ Khaled. When I introduce you to an artist, her name is Remy Ma. If I introduce you to somebody, it's Cool and Dre or Scott Storch - people who change the face of the game.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Game
  • Change

• There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Fun
  • Now
  • Nobody

• I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Faith
  • Christian
  • Beliefs

• One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • She
  • Career
  • Style

• My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Parents

• But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Truth

• Yes, Heathrow is the U.K.'s busiest airport, but new runways or a new airport are not the answer. It is far better to focus on improving capacity.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Focus
  • Better
  • New

• Startups on the inside are always badly broken.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Always
  • Broken
  • Inside

• Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Great
  • American
  • First

• Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.

  

  Tecumseh
  • People
  • Respect
  • Show

• Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Think
  • Artists
  • Actually

• My brother asked me once, 'Are you a misanthrope?' And I said, 'No, I just find people irritating.'

  

  Craig Kilborn
  • People
  • Brother

• The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with the weeds and the fittest might survive.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Garden
  • Roses
  • Faire

• I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Myself
  • Design
  • Interior

• I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they're still funny because they're just likeable, and you want to see them. Me, though, when you see me trying to be funny, it's like the worst thing in the world. It's needy, it's cloying, it's manipulative - it's bad.

  

  Constance Wu
  • World
  • Trying
  • Bad

• I write in bed, too. I find it very comforting. I want to sort of, like, crawl in a fetal position if I have to.

  

  Molly Ringwald
  • Writing
  • Position
  • Bed

• How my film career happened, I don't know. It was unplanned. I'd been in films and TV throughout the Sixties and early Seventies, but it was really 'The Naked Civil Servant' in 1975 that put me on the radar.

  

  John Hurt
  • Career