William Hurt Quotes
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'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
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It's not ideal to always be one eye on the Blackberry and two arms around my children. For the sake of mothers out there who don't have the Blackberry but do have the children and are hoping someone will be raising their voice on their behalf, it's a great privilege.
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image.
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When I was little, I guess I was just an ordinary kid. But then things changed when I was in junior high. You know, kids that become geeks become one because of something. Like, they aren't good at sports, or girls don't like them. I, too, for some reason, got into things like science fiction and, well, especially science fiction as an escape.
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I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.
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Hope is the raw material of losers.
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I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.
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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
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I'm not going away. I'll still be very much involved in the team but not with the same number of hours. I need to move over and allow the people who are really doing the job the space to do so.
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Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
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Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.
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On a throne at the center of a sense of humor sits a capacity for irony. All wit rests on a cheerful awareness of life's incongruities. It is a gentling awareness, and no politician without it should be allowed near power.
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I love the film route and I'm gong to try my hardest to stay on it.
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There's my pessimism. Because I didn't know yet that type of film is always going to become more extinct, that there won't be anymore. Because there will always be more films that win five Oscars like Terms of Endearment.
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Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.
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It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.
