John Hurt Quotes
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Don't forget there are two sides to performing. Finding the truth, but you also have to be transparent enough for the audience to see it. How many times have you seen a performance and thought: 'Well, it seems to be meaning a great deal to you but it ain't coming across to me?' It is to be shared.
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I say you play a part, you don't work one.
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My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.
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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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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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I have done quite a lot of outsider figures.
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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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The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.
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Things come in a quieter way to me. It's not laziness, and it's not diffidence. I just know how far you have to bend for work. That's important for me.
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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'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?
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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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Everybody's got to work with Roger Corman. You can't leave out that experience.
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Everything that came to me, in terms of the ritzier side of performing, was a plus.
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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 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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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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I don't know whether I inspire anything in anyone.
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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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I like entertaining. I adore it. I feel I'm in the right place. Without question.
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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 have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film.
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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.