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All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.

William Hurt

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William Hurt
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 20
Film Actor
Film Producer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Washington
District of Columbia
William McChord Hurt
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I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
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I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.
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Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.
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You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.
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The greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.
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The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing, which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.
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Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.
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The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware this to me is the most astounding fact.
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Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.
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I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging
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Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard.
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I'm not comfortable with walking the red carpet in a tuxedo and seeing all the women with their boobs pushed up and all the men dressed as penguins - particularly when the subject of your film is the nature of violence and humanity.
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David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.
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I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out
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Also CSPAN is really the great treasure of the media as far as getting information.
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I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go.
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It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it.
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I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations.
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And I don't want to use my troubles as an example of what to do and what not to do.
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