John Hurt Quotes
Top 49 wise famous quotes and sayings by John Hurt
John Hurt Famous Quotes & Sayings
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It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.
My father's a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.
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.
Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.
I left drama school and went straight into a 10-week film for which I was paid $75 I might say, which for 1962 was one heck of a lot of money.
I've done some stinkers in the cinema. You can't regret it; there are always reasons for doing something, even if it's just the location.
My springboard is always the script. Even if the script is taken from a novel, I often haven't read the novel ...
Obviously, the arrogance of my own nature in regards to other people's work would suggest that I think I'm talented.
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.
Everybody, I think, that was in 'Harry Potter' was certainly introduced to an enormous lot of young people.
I'm not really a big musical fan. I enjoyed 'West Side Story' when it came out, but it gets a bit tired in the end.
My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.
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.
Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.
The English National Opera does have some terrific productions, which are accessible, and they're not too ridiculously expensive.
Picasso was hugely innovative, and, wow, did he have facility, amazing ability, but I don't think he painted a masterpiece.
I seem to watch less and less television. The best thing in 'Downton Abbey' is Penelope Wilton. She is always worth the watch.
Actors are not always the best judges. We have a peculiar idea of what we think we are, and sometimes it's best left to others to decide what we play.
To me, nothing ever feels like a sure thing. I cling to that because it's very important you don't ever think anything is a sure thing.
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.
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.
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.
It's a great relief to feel that you're working with someone rather than for someone. You don't feel that you're being tested, as it were.
When you're really working well with a director then you can be as outrageous as you like and so can he. And there's no worry about it.
Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.
I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.
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.