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If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.

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John Hurt
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: January 22
Died: 2017
Died: January 27
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The British tradition, basically, is to go to the character. And the Hollywood tradition, shall we say, is basically to take the character to the performer.
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I stopped asking a long time ago, why would you want me to play that? I'm an actor. That's what I do.
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Very broadly speaking, you can put directors into two areas: One for whom you work, and the other with whom you work. And I prefer the latter, for obvious reasons.
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I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think that's definitely a gift of genes or whatever.
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We're all far too afraid of being so arrogant to say Either you can or you can't.
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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 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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My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.
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Once you've started to dig a hole, you can't get out of it.
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If I hadn't been a part of [Harry Potter] I would have been deeply upset.
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If it's a low-brow bawdy comedy, it's got to stand the chance of succeeding as such. If it's an intellectual piece, a drama, and so forth. And of course, once you've determined the level of the piece, do it the best you know how. And then don't make concessions. To audiences, or to pursestrings, or whatever.
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I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.
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I find it difficult to say, like which child do you prefer the most, and its a sort of surface choice. I've never known how to quite answer that one adequately.
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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.
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Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.
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Often I don't read novels. The script is more important, that's the springboard to your imagination, really. Peripheral information can be interesting to read but you can't use it when it's not in the script.
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I was keen on sports-that's how my nose got this way. It's not actually broken the nose was just pushed up a little bit and moved over. It's an aquiline nose, quite Irish.
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If you listen, you learn if you talk, you don't.
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I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9. And I was at a very bizarre prep school at the time, to say high Anglo-Catholic would be a real English understatement.
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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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