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The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.

John Hurt

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John Hurt
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: January 22
Died: 2017
Died: January 27
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Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.
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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 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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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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We're all far too afraid of being so arrogant to say Either you can or you can't.
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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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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 got used to [ Lars Von Trier] doing the narration for 'Dogville' and 'Manderley.' And I said to him I do these narrations for you but you never put me in a film! So he called my bluff and put me in 'Melancholia' and I was thrilled about that.
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