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William Hurt
American
Actor
About the author
I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go.
William Hurt,
American
Actor
#Time
#Life
#Privilege
All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.
William Hurt,
American
Actor
#Work
#Being
Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.
William Hurt,
American
Actor
#Successful
#Being
#Friend
#Father
Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.
William Hurt,
American
Actor
#Successful
#Being
#Famous
#Mediocrity
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.
William Hurt,
American
Actor
#Being
David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.
William Hurt,
American
Actor
#Artists
#Actors
I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
William Hurt,
American
Actor
#Time
#Science
#Fiction
What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.
William Hurt,
American
Actor
#Movies
#Improvement
The thing is David is also aware of everything and it's not like you're going somewhere the director is not.
William Hurt,
American
Actor
The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.
William Hurt,
American
Actor
#Being
#Fact
#Existence
The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done.
William Hurt,
American
Actor
#Perfection
#Theater
Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.
William Hurt,
American
Actor
#People
#Success
#Failure
People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.
William Hurt,
American
Actor
#Time
#People
#Luck
#Expertise
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,
American
Actor
#Time
#Trying
#Actor
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,
American
Actor
#Acting
#Life
#People
#Light
#Trying
#Rest
It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.
William Hurt,
American
Actor
If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character.
William Hurt,
American
Actor
#Character
#Chance
#Actors
Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.
William Hurt,
American
Actor
#Study
I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night.
William Hurt,
American
Actor
#Man
#Night
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,
American
Actor
#Knowledge
#Heroes
#Courage
#Libraries
I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.
William Hurt,
American
Actor
#Want
#Artists
#Actors
I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision.
William Hurt,
American
Actor
#Balance
#Decision
I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people.
William Hurt,
American
Actor
#Acting
#People
#Help
I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out.
William Hurt,
American
Actor
#Years
#Women
#Months
I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations.
William Hurt,
American
Actor
#News
I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.
William Hurt,
American
Actor
#Acting
#Love
I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die.
William Hurt,
American
Actor
#Want
#Eyes
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,
American
Actor
#Want
#Time
#Film
#Old
#Woman
#Running
I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.
William Hurt,
American
Actor
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,
American
Actor
#Being
#Energy
#Financial
#Mediocrity
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,
American
Actor
#Saying
#America
You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.
William Hurt,
American
Actor
#People
#Idea