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John Hurt
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John Hurt
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: January 22
Died: 2017
Died: January 27
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If I hadn't been a part of [Harry Potter] I would have been deeply upset.
John Hurt
My fathers a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.
John Hurt
I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.
John Hurt
Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.
John Hurt
I don't like no confusion.
John Hurt
I've got plenty of train memories. I was sent to school when I was eight years old in 1948 in Kent. So I had to go through London in 1948, just after the war. Many ,many strange experiences.
John Hurt
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.
John Hurt
I think it's interesting to see how things come into and go out of fashion.
John Hurt
It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.
John Hurt
I love working with Lars [von Trier]! I've worked with him three times. I did the narration of Dogville and Manderlay.
John Hurt
My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.
John Hurt
When you're really working well with a director then you can be as outrageous as you like and so can he. And there's no worry about it.
John Hurt
Lotte Lenya was all emotion. She wasn't anything but emotion. She was not an intellectual.
John Hurt
I've done lots of films with first directors, so it's not unusual for me.
John Hurt
I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film.
John Hurt
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.
John Hurt
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.
John Hurt
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.
John Hurt
Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it's being able - I can't tell you how one does, but one tries to read those circumstances correctly.
John Hurt
I think [ Lars Von Trier] is a fantastic filmmaker. No question. You've got to be ready for him. He's sharp and he's got a sharp tongue and I love that. He doesn't mind it back.
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