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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.
John Hurt
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John Hurt
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: January 22
Died: 2017
Died: January 27
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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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I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film.
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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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I don't like no confusion.
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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 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've spent a great deal of my life doing independent film, and that is partly because the subject matter interests me and partly because that is the basis of the film industry. That's where the film-makers come from, it's where they start and sometimes its where they should have stayed.
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In the States it's more and more difficult to get an independent film off the ground, and you certainly wont get the opportunity to play something like that in a studio movie.
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