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Lotte Lenya was all emotion. She wasn't anything but emotion. She was not an intellectual.
John Hurt
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John Hurt
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: January 22
Died: 2017
Died: January 27
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Very broadly speaking, you can put directors into two areas: One for whom you work, and the other with whom you work. And I prefer the latter, for obvious reasons.
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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 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 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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We're all far too afraid of being so arrogant to say Either you can or you can't.
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People are not what they seem to be according to their looks.
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I don't like no confusion.
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Films don't take as long as people think. 'Harry Potter,' people always used to say, 'Well, my God, do you ever get any time to yourself?' I think I did, in 'Harry Potter,' over a 12 year period I did five days. So it's not exactly exhausting.
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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'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.
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The truth is rarely true and never simple.
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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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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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It's a great relief to feel that you're working with someone rather than for someone. You don't feel that you're being tested, as it were.
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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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I think particularly Daniel [Radcliffe], he knows what he's doing. I'm sure he'll finish up a producer. He really realized what it was, knew the size of it. And it was gigantic, the biggest franchise [Harry Potter] in history.
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I loathed school. I don't have an academic mind, and besides I was so bored by my teachers! How teachers can take a child's inventiveness and say yes, yes, in that pontifical way of theirs, and smother everything!
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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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You collect as much information as you can and then you put it into the mulberry of your mind and hope that you come up with a decent wine. Sometimes you do sometimes you don't.
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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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