Quotes by William Hurt - Page 2

I had great qualms about playing a man who was living. I've never met Walt McCandless, and I never will.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Qualms
Walt
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The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Existence
Facts
Simple
Astounding
Aware
Simple Fact
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People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Cameras
Expertise
Luck
People
Rehearsal
Time People Who
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Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Famous
Being Famous
Fame
Mediocrity
Successful
Famous Me Feel
Striving
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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.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Ideas
Mold
People
Service Culture
Track
Track Record
Your People Own
Breaking
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The thing is David is also aware of everything and it's not like you're going somewhere the director is not.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Aware
David
Somewhere
Director
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The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright
William Hurt / Film Actor
Energy
Stage
Technique
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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.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Fragility
Should
Thinking
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Celebrity is a pathological sickness of the culture. Narcissists on screen being consumed by narcissists off-screen.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Consumed
Sickness
Pathological
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I have never worked with anyone who I hold in higher esteem than Chris Menges. He's an absolute, bona fide, authentic artist.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Artist
Esteem
Higher
Absolute
Authentic
Bona
Bona Fide
Chris
Hold
Worked
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When you are a kid, you are beset by fears, and you think, 'I'll solve the fear by living forever and becoming a movie star.'
William Hurt / Film Actor
Movie Star
Solve
Fears
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I was very lucky when I was a kid - I travelled a lot and spent a lot of time in Africa, Asia and Europe. I also chant in Sanskrit.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Asia
Chant
Travelled
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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.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Looks
Roles
Three
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I'm coming from the notion that acting is an art. It is not a business. It is about building characters, not about selling personalities.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Notion
Selling
Personalities
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Play is play, fun is fun, and work is work. They're different. I work hard; even if it's supposed to be fun for someone else, it's work for me.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Work Me Fun
Work Hard
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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.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Energy
Inspiration
Mediocrity
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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
William Hurt / Film Actor
America
Challenges
Toronto
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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.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Cannes
Delighted
Toronto
Good Where Keep
Received
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It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Light
People
Trying
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The point is that there are challenges within techniques. When you differentiate in technique, you challenge yourself; you ask yourself the same question in a new way.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Differentiate
Technique
New Way
Techniques
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You cut off the capacity for grief in your life, and you cut off the joy at the same time. They both come up through the same tunnel. You don't have one without the other.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Capacity
Grief
Joy
Life Time Your
Life Time Joy
Cut
Off
Same Time
Tunnel
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I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Running
Direct
Long
Long Time Ago
Want
Time Me Long
Time Long Me
Older Woman
Ranch
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I have a way of synthesizing. That's what I would encourage any young person to do: take in the ideas, the conflicts, and the world. Watch and listen and live before you go public.
William Hurt / Film Actor
World Live Way
Conflicts
World Way Live
Young Person
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Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Courage
Firefighter
Guy
Hero
Absorb
Heroes
Basis
Calculated
Libraries
Replete
Risks
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I am constantly asked, 'What's the difference between acting in the theater and acting in film?' The only answer I can give is the space - you adapt to the space. But acting is acting.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Adapt
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The thrill of acting is the discovery part, so it all changes, but it has to change in a way that fits what is written. You can't just wander off and get interested in your own tangent.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Acting
Discovery
Thrill
Wander
Change Your Way
Interested
Fits
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I don't want my children to have to wade through the crap to get to the cream, you know. I want them to be aware that I struggled to live with and tell my truth, and that it was a decent thing.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Crap
Cream
Decent
My Truth
Wade
Struggled
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The problem with Google is you have 360 degrees of omnidirectional information on a linear basis, but the algorithms for irony and ambiguity are not there. And those are the algorithms of wisdom.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Ambiguity
Degrees
Irony
Linear
The Problem With
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The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. 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.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Amazing
Amount
Energy
Financial
Imaginative
Mediocrity
Offensive
Fundamentally
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.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Actors
Arbitrary
Capricious
Little Time
Neurotic
Offensive
Trying
Gently
Outer
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I am not a famous person at home - I'm just a guy here. I'm a father, I'm a companion, I'm a human being. I am not a public figure in my house; I am not a celebrity. I am not a famous person to myself - I am just a guy.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Famous
Companion
Home Myself I Am
Famous Person
Figure
Human Being
Public Figure
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Every single second of extra time to work with other actors has definitely always, for me, paid off for the film. For the project. Every single extra heartbeat you could get, mutually considering the scene, was of benefit.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Considering
Heartbeat
Time Work Always
Benefit
Extra
Work Time Me
Mutually
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I'm not comfortable with walking the red carpet in a tuxedo and seeing all the women with their boobs pushed up and all the men dressed as penguins - particularly when the subject of your film is the nature of violence and humanity.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Men
Humanity
Violence
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The irony is that the more specific you are in the portrayal of character, the more like other people you are. In the same way, the more you think about how alone you are in this life, you realise how much a brother and sister everyone else is.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Irony
Portrayal
Brother And Sister
Everyone Else
Realise
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I'm not there to tailor the role to me: I'm there to tailor me to the role. That guarantees me something, a precious thing, which is creativity. I'm guaranteed that I will have a creative experience, because I will go to it, not demand that it comes to me.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Creative
Demand
Guarantees
Experience Me Will
Guaranteed
Precious
Precious Thing
Role
Tailor
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I grew up in the South Pacific. Basically, my brothers were Guamanian. I spoke words of Guamanian long before I spoke words of English, and so I've seen a lot. You know, I've traveled in places where people don't have the benefits of American life. And so I've seen a lot of stuff.
William Hurt / Film Actor
American Life
Pacific
Traveled
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Fame... it's been a challenge, let's put it that way. It's a privilege and a responsibility, and I'm not sure I carried the responsibility well at times, which is embarrassing. And I've had to look and be disappointed in myself occasionally for how I behaved in some circumstances.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Circumstances
Disappointed
Embarrassing
Behaved
Carried
Occasionally
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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.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Journey
Character
Real
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The enemies of acting are mood and attitude and other general homogenized disruptive entities. Whereas acting is about action - doing - and unless you can figure out a way to craft in an imaginative reality to which you don't submit, you're going to be out of control. You'll flip out. The job is to be surprised.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Disruptive
Flip
Imaginative
Mood
Submit
Craft
Enemies
Entities
Homogenized
Surprised
Whereas
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It's been a long comeback. Things were pretty dark for me. But I have a faith now, and it saves my day. I was angry with God for a long time because I was unhappy with me. I hadn't learned to make the distinction between God and my parents. But there's a peace now. In the end, I got sick and tired of being sick and tired.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Faith
Angry
Comeback
Dark
Distinction
Long
Long Time
Sick
Tired
Unhappy
Time God Faith
Now
Pretty
Between
God Faith Time
Got
Parents
In The End
Learned
Saves
Sick And Tired
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You get older, and people start passing away. And so if you're lucky - my mom died very young, for instance, and I have friends who died very young - but the point being that, I think if you're awake, you know you're going to pass on. And that the real treasure in life is the long term - relationships that you really value.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Awake
Instance
Passing
Treasure
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My first cousin, by the way, on my father's mother side was John Marshall Harlan, who was a Supreme Court justice, as was his grandson. And I think a lot of my fight and my work to struggle for fairness and the techniques of theater and in subject matter probably stems in some way from some sense I have of his issues in life.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Court
Fairness
Grandson
Issues
Struggle
Subject Matter
Supreme
Supreme Court
Supreme Court Justice
Theater
John
Marshall
Stems
Subject
Techniques
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For as privileged an actor as I have been, TV as a standard is short shrift. They have to do it so quickly that they don't stop and take a look. They just shoot. So that's one of the reasons I typically stay away from it. I think art is an act of consideration, and if you're not considering, I don't think you're really doing mankind a favor.
William Hurt / Film Actor
Consideration
Mankind
Privileged
Favor
Standard
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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."
William Hurt / Film Actor
Art
Compassion
Thinking
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