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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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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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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 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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Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.
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You have to learn to cut your cloth accordingly. But it seems to be a human weakness. Once you start making a lot of money, you just join in with everyone else. It's like the banks, and we've seen what happens there.
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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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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 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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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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I think it's interesting to see how things come into and go out of fashion.
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The truth is rarely true and never simple.
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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 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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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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People are not what they seem to be according to their looks.
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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've done lots of films with first directors, so it's not unusual for me.
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Once you've started to dig a hole, you can't get out of it.
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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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Bong Joon-ho is enormously sensitive to performance. He knows what he needs to see and that's all he needs to shoot. He is so daring. We don't do that in the west. We shoot everything.
John Hurt
