John Hurt Quotes
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The difference between anger and deep remorse - remorse is much fatter. It's a deeper feeling altogether. Anger is too easy an escape for my money.
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Everybody's got to work with Roger Corman. You can't leave out that experience.
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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.
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'The Naked Civil Servant' was as important for me as 'Easy Rider' was for Jack Nicholson. No question.
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I love the uilleann pipes and listen to Ronan Browne who's an uilleann piper.
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Everything that came to me, in terms of the ritzier side of performing, was a plus.
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Really, I'm only alive out of curiosity. I'm very curious about where we're all marching.
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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 have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film.
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I'm not accustomed to doing films without seeing the script.
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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 first got involved with Mel Brooks through 'The Elephant Man.' Everybody knows now, but they didn't know at the time that he was the producer.
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I seem to watch less and less television. The best thing in 'Downton Abbey' is Penelope Wilton. She is always worth the watch.
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Human beings are very good at adapting to what happens.
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I see myself as an interpretative actor rather than a creative one.
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I gave up religious thinking a long time ago and am really just an agnostic now.
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My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her.
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The first thing you have to get used to in any kind of acting is the ability to make a fool of yourself. If you haven't learnt how to make a fool of yourself, you shouldn't be on the boards. That's absolutely what it's all about.
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Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.
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I don't care about the length of anything I play, as long as it's a good character.
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For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.
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I don't think you automatically become an enlightened person because you are a daddy. But they will change you, of course - their understanding of you puts you in a different place.
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My criteria when looking for a role is that I will do anything that stands the chance of succeeding on the level it is intended to. After that, if it's a part I can do something personal with.
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I didn't want to teach. I wanted to act. It was quite a long and difficult road to get there but very thrilling when I did.