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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.
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.
John Hurt
I think it's interesting to see how things come into and go out of fashion.
John Hurt
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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Anything which retains interest is optimistic. When the characters become disinterested, it's pessimistic. Does that make sense?
John Hurt
We all have our limitations.
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The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.
John Hurt
Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.
John Hurt
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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The common misconception is that we create films for ourselves. And I really don't do it for myself. I get stopped in the street by people saying, Do you mind if I say this about your work? Do I mind? I'm delighted. I do it for you. It's not for me. It's my living, yes, sure.
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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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I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film.
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If I hadn't been a part of [Harry Potter] I would have been deeply upset.
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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 [ 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.
John Hurt
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.
John Hurt
On the other hand, you get other films that are spread over a much longer period of time and it's entirely exhausting. But there's always light at the end of the tunnel with a film.
John Hurt
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.
John Hurt
Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.
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
If you listen, you learn if you talk, you don't.
John Hurt
