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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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John Hurt
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: January 22
Died: 2017
Died: January 27
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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 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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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'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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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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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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We all have our limitations.
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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 don't like no confusion.
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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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