John Hurt Quotes
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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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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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Human beings are very good at adapting to what happens.
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Picasso was hugely innovative, and, wow, did he have facility, amazing ability, but I don't think he painted a masterpiece.
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I love the uilleann pipes and listen to Ronan Browne who's an uilleann piper.
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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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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 gave up religious thinking a long time ago and am really just an agnostic now.
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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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The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a few days, but then I have to discipline myself quite fiercely if I want to do some painting that's worthwhile. Otherwise, you're just doodling. It's much easier when you're just told what you have to do.
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I see myself as an interpretative actor rather than a creative one.
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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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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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For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.
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We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.
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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 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'm very much of the opinion that to work is better than not to work.
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Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.
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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.
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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'm not accustomed to doing films without seeing the script.
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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.