British - Actor | January 22, 1940 - January 25, 2017
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.
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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.
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As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.
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It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.
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I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film.
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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.
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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.
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We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.
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