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John Hurt
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: January 22
Died: 2017
Died: January 27
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I think it would be very difficult to play somebody if they didn't think they had any virtues or redeeming characteristics.
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I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio...
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By the time I came to do the final ones [Harry Potter's film], I was working on something that was massively successful. There was a huge difference in indulgence and all sorts of stuff. A very big difference in peoples' attitudes. They were very pleased with themselves. In human terms, it was quite interesting to see the difference.
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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 have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film.
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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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It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.
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The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.
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In anything really, it's finding the reality. You can't be 'real,' but you can create a reality. And that created reality is what the audience believes in. And that's essential. Because if the audience doesn't believe that, they're never going to trust you. And if they don't trust you, you can't lead them up the mountain.
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My springboard is always the script. Even if the script is taken from a novel, I often haven't read the novel...
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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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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.
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Lotte Lenya was all emotion. She wasn't anything but emotion. She was not an intellectual.
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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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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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It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.
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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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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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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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We shot ['Sailcloth'] five days down in Cornwall, and you couldn't have asked for a more beautiful place. It was a couple of tough days at sea, but when I say tough it was still enjoyable.
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