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If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.
John Hurt -
I think fame makes people a bit nervous.
John Hurt
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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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If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind.
John Hurt -
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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Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.
John Hurt -
I like entertaining. I adore it. I feel I'm in the right place. Without question.
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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.
John Hurt
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Human beings are very good at adapting to what happens.
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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.
John Hurt -
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 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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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.
John Hurt -
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.
John Hurt
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I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding.
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The English National Opera does have some terrific productions, which are accessible, and they're not too ridiculously expensive.
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I knew I wanted to act from a very young age - from about nine, really - but I didn't know how to go about it. I had no idea. The world was a much bigger place then.
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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 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'm very much of the opinion that to work is better than not to work.
John Hurt
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Religious people know deep down that that is the most vulnerable area of their lives, and when others question it, they are liable to hit out and feel insulted. You know it is absolutely without proof, yet people still commit themselves totally to this belief. They cannot refute it because it is so central to their lives.
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I'm not interested in awards. I never have been. I don't think they are important. Don't get me wrong, if somebody gives me a prize, I thank them as gratefully as I know how, because it's very nice to be given a prize. But I don't think that awards ought to be sought.
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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 see myself as an interpretative actor rather than a creative one.
John Hurt