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'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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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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I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio.
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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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Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.
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I say you play a part, you don't work one.
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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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I see myself as an interpretative actor rather than a creative one.
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It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.
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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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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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Human beings are very good at adapting to what happens.
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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 don't care about the length of anything I play, as long as it's a good character.
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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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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.
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I gave up religious thinking a long time ago and am really just an agnostic now.
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Also the wonderful thing about film, you can see light at the end of the tunnel. You did realise that it is going to come to an end at some stage.
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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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I'm not accustomed to doing films without seeing the script.
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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.