American - Actor | March 20, 1950 -
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
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We'd like to prearrange our life on all levels. We'd prefer it to be scripted. But it's not.
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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.
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I am just as comfortable in Britain and France as I am in America... but nowhere is perfect.
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My greatest offering is my concept. It isn't my face.
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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.
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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.
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Rage with panache.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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I haven't planned a reaction on anything... If you do, you've screwed up.
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