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John Hurt Quotes

John Hurt quotes

British Actor January 22, 1940

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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
Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course. John Hurt
I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe. John Hurt
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
John Hurt quote: "It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making..."
It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor. John Hurt
John Hurt quote: "My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me..."
My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure. John Hurt
John Hurt quote: "I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have..."
I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film. John Hurt
John Hurt quote: "Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the..."
Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting. John Hurt
I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick. John Hurt
It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater. John Hurt
It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer. John Hurt
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. John Hurt
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. John Hurt
I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit. John Hurt
John Hurt quote: "I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some..."
I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films. John Hurt

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