John Hurt Quotes

There's an awful lot of hanging around when you're doing science fiction. Going down and waiting for them to set up, being told to go back to your dressing room while they change the track and the lighting and so on.

John Hurt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: January 22, 1940 - January 25, 2017

Topics

ChangeScienceWaitingDoingYouGo

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.

Joan Didion

WorkBusinessDailyDayMeWriting

If you eat junk, you look like junk. People say, 'It's not my fault, it's my glands.' It's not; it's greed!

Joan Collins

PeopleGreedYouLookSayEat

If there is a person behaving more destructively in popular culture than Mario Lavandeira, I cannot think of one. He has used cruelty as a crass mechanism to build up his own celebrity and has utilized political correctness to protect himself while using it as a weapon to dehumanize those he doesn't agree with.

Andrew Breitbart

CultureThinkPoliticalPersonBuild

I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordinary.

Andy Warhol

TryExtraordinaryHappenPaintJust

Harvard has enough panegyrists without me.

John Updike

MeEnoughWithoutHarvard

Thinking about it, you know, our phones are everything. They're kind of benign.

Rosemarie DeWitt

ThinkingYouKnowKindPhonesOur

When you get to a point where you're successful enough that you can say, 'I don't have to take any job anymore,' and you're still good at what you do, how do you decide what work to take on? I think the answer is that you pursue what you enjoy. In my case, it's variety.

Martin Short

WorkGoodJobThinkEnoughEnjoy

I was 16 years old and wanted to help my mom with the rent. There was a restaurant called China Buffet in Tampa that hung a 'Help Wanted' sign outside, so I went in and ended up hosting every Friday and Sunday for $6 or $7 an hour.

Michelle Phan

MomRestaurantFridayHelpSunday

One family, one nation, indivisible. That mentality is essential for our salvation.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

FamilyNationSalvationMentality

I didn't have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues and folk artists crossing over; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to get started.

Bonnie Raitt

RevolutionLookBluesOverSinger

I'm looking to do an action film where I can run with my shirt off and a gun in my hand; and do like a 'Taken' role and get up on one knee and kill the bad guy.

Bobb'e J. Thompson

LookingActionGunBadI CanRun

I think all music is a gift from God.

Pharrell Williams

MusicGodGiftThinkI Think

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by John Hurt