William Hurt Quotes
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The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright
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I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die.
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You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.
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The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing, which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.
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Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard.
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The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done
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The greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.
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I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.
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I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations.
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People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.
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But it's also another myth to think that you should be as tight as a drum and not have any frailties or fragilities.
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I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging
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But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.
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Also CSPAN is really the great treasure of the media as far as getting information.
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I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.
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Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.
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Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.
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You don't look at it as the size of the role. Quantity is not the point. You can be as thorough in 30 seconds as you can in three hours.
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The art is about opening, it is not about prejudice, it is not about contempt prior to investigation. It's about endlessly trying to keep from having contempt by admitting that you don't know. Even if you know a lot compared to some other people, usually, I think, the honest experience would be: "God, how little I know! And how much I need to have compassion for myself and for other people."
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Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.
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It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.
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I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
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What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.
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When I look at a person, or a character, it is in every case the beginning of an endless journey. And I don't suppose I know where that starts. I know that I have to, like every other person, make decisions and have opinions. But I'm real careful to not judge crassly or cheaply someone else's life.