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I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio...

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John Hurt
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: January 22
Died: 2017
Died: January 27
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Anything which retains interest is optimistic. When the characters become disinterested, it's pessimistic. Does that make sense?
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I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick.
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I love working with Lars [von Trier]! I've worked with him three times. I did the narration of Dogville and Manderlay.
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The truth is rarely true and never simple.
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It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.
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I've done lots of films with first directors, so it's not unusual for me.
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Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.
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It's quite interesting, looking back at the first one [film about Harry Potter], nobody knew whether or not it was going to be successful as a film. The books were of course already very successful, but that's happened before, where the books were successful and the films weren't at all. But it turned out that they were.
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I think it's interesting to see how things come into and go out of fashion.
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I think particularly Daniel [Radcliffe], he knows what he's doing. I'm sure he'll finish up a producer. He really realized what it was, knew the size of it. And it was gigantic, the biggest franchise [Harry Potter] in history.
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I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.
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I think it would be very difficult to play somebody if they didn't think they had any virtues or redeeming characteristics.
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It's a great relief to feel that you're working with someone rather than for someone. You don't feel that you're being tested, as it were.
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On the other hand, you get other films that are spread over a much longer period of time and it's entirely exhausting. But there's always light at the end of the tunnel with a film.
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As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.
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I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.
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I left drama school and went straight into a 10-week film for which I was paid £75 I might say, which for 1962 was one heck of a lot of money.
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