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John Hurt Quotes

If I'm doing a play, 30 to 40 percent of the people that come to the stage door have pictures of 'Alien' for me to autograph. And usually, the photos are pretty gory ones.

John Hurt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Me Door Doing Alien Play

If you look across the valley, you can see exactly what I mean: about four beautiful houses, and you think something is happening in each of them. It's like a mural.

Jilly Cooper

Beautiful Think You Look Mean See

I'm very much a hippie from Northern California.

Jessica Chastain

California Hippie Much Very Northern

I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.

Ann Beattie

Think Serious I Think Bleak

I've chosen all my films very carefully. I know that I've had better parts in some films than in others. But the films I do are the ones I want to see when I read the screenplays. I guess you can basically say that I've just done things I loved when I read them.

Mary Steenburgen

Loved Better You Know Done Want

Watching a person lose their dignity used to be uncomfortable, and now it's an expected part of the program that we're becoming comfortable with.

Lisa Kudrow

Uncomfortable Lose Dignity Person

Remind yourself that other people's jobs aren't so simple.

Jason Fried

Simple Yourself People Other Remind

Politics are not the task of a Christian.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Politics Christian Task

But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do.

Deana Carter

You Become Everyone Successful Idea

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.

Alfred Jarry

Life Character Conflict New Life New

The thing that 'Neuromancer' predicts as being actually like the Internet isn't actually like the Internet at all!

William Gibson

Internet Being Like Actually Thing

It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.

Norma Shearer

Impossible Inevitable Anything Get

You've got to protect the system of secular faith in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and Enlightenment values. That way, you can protect all religions.

Richard Dreyfuss

Faith Constitution Enlightenment You