American - Actor | March 20, 1950 -
Woody Allen asked me to improv once. I said no.
William Hurt
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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.
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I'm an actor. I play roles in films and theaters. I don't act out, and I don't play people.
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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.
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I live in the county where my mother was born and buried.
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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.
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Post-adolescence reaches usually into the late 30s.
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Where did I study? I went to P.S. 6. I went to Collegiate, Middlesex, Tufts, Juilliard.
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I like to work. I'm glad; I'm privileged to have work.
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I'm not going to party. I'm going to go do something that will make me break a sweat.
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If you don't exercise, you don't stay strong. I like to work with talented people.
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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.
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