John Hurt Quotes
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Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.
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I say you play a part, you don't work one.
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I'm not really a big musical fan. I enjoyed 'West Side Story' when it came out, but it gets a bit tired in the end.
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I'd never done any Beckett before 'Krapp,' and I haven't done any of his other plays since. I've always felt that 'Krapp' is an autobiographical piece.
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As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.
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I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.
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The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.
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I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9. And I was at a very bizarre prep school at the time; to say 'high Anglo-Catholic' would be a real English understatement.
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I can't say that I wouldn't prefer to make small films, basically because I think they are probably more interesting in terms of the material. But every now and again, it's quite good to do a big one.
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There's an awful lot of hanging around when you're doing science fiction. Going down and waiting for them to set up, being told to go back to your dressing room while they change the track and the lighting and so on.
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Everybody, I think, that was in 'Harry Potter' was certainly introduced to an enormous lot of young people.
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I don't know whether I inspire anything in anyone.
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Ultimately, the film industry has always pushed out its biggies, and I don't have a problem with that. I just wish that we'd spend more time nurturing the smaller ones.
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Everything that came to me, in terms of the ritzier side of performing, was a plus.
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Everybody's got to work with Roger Corman. You can't leave out that experience.
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I think fame makes people a bit nervous.
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One thing that is likely to make you lose touch is if you keep in touch with the past too much.
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If I'm doing a play, 30 to 40 percent of the people that come to the stage door have pictures of 'Alien' for me to autograph. And usually, the photos are pretty gory ones.
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I like entertaining. I adore it. I feel I'm in the right place. Without question.
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I love the uilleann pipes and listen to Ronan Browne who's an uilleann piper.
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There are situations where you are left robbed of all quality of life, and I believe it is entirely up to you how you want to deal with that. You can follow the dictates of religion if that is what you believe in, or you can take a personal decision.
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Early on, I didn't intend to have children. I thought it was too difficult a world for them. But then it happened, and I am thrilled to have them now.
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I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film is a peculiar thing, parts don't necessarily read in script form anything like as well as they can do when it comes to materialising.
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I'm somewhat old-fashioned, and I still talk about playing a part. I don't talk about my work - 'I've seen some of your work' - there's not much work in it, is there?