John Hurt Quotes

You can see areas where maybe you got a bit lazy, perhaps, or you see when you were really on form. I think an actor is very like a sportsman in that respect. You have periods where you're in terrific form. Everything you touch seems to work and come right. And other times, when you're working really hard, it's okay, but it isn't scintillating.

John Hurt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkRespectThinkYouLazyActor

Non-profits should be looking to enlist and retain the best people to aggressively solve problems, not to perform adequately and persist. We should expect people to innovate and do the highest-quality work and then reward them accordingly.

Andrew Yang

WorkBestPeopleLookingProblems

To look good in the water you have to pick the right swimsuit. I own close to 500.

Amanda Beard

GoodWaterYouLookRightOwn

A calling is the place where your gifts, abilities, desires, and feelings of worth all meet. When you follow your calling, you feel at home, at peace - you feel as though you're where you're meant to be.

Mike Yaconelli

HomePeaceFeelWorthYouFeelings

Cain has proven himself as the best heavyweight of all time, and it would be hard to strip him.

Luke Rockhold

TimeBestHardHimWouldHimself

Don't paint a nasty picture of your exes. We'll justifiably wonder what made you stay in those heinous situations in the first place.

Liz Vassey

PictureYouWonderPlaceFirstStay

If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

Lloyd Alexander

LearnMoreMayBooksThanReaders

Allowing the U.N. into Iraq will demonstrate to the Iraqis that the international community as a whole is committed to bringing stability and safety to their country.

Jay Rockefeller

CommunitySafetyCountryWillWhole

A longstanding dream of mine is to adapt 'Dune,' but it's a long process to get the rights, and I don't think I will succeed.

Denis Villeneuve

SucceedThinkProcessLongDream

Show business is like a bumpy bus ride. Sometimes you find yourself temporarily juggled out of your seat and holding onto a strap. But the main idea is to hang in there and not be shoved out the door.

Cliff Robertson

BusinessRideYourselfDoorYouBus

I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who had something meaningful to say.

Ashwin Sanghi

SomeoneSayWantMoreMeaningful

In terms of my own experience, my dad is first-generation, so his parents were from China, and my mom was born and raised in southern Illinois, and she was involved in the arts. My dad's a doctor.

Phillipa Soo

ExperienceParentsMomDoctorBorn

I'm not the kind of person who is on television and in magazines every five minutes selling clothes or washing machines.

Sylvie Guillem

ClothesTelevisionSellingPerson

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