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The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware this to me is the most astounding fact.

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'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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I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process
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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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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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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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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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You don't look at it as the size of the role. Quantity is not the point. You can be as thorough in 30 seconds as you can in three hours.
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I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
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I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision
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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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I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way.
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If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character
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Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure
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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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Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.
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The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright
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When I look at a person, or a character, it is in every case the beginning of an endless journey. And I don't suppose I know where that starts. I know that I have to, like every other person, make decisions and have opinions. But I'm real careful to not judge crassly or cheaply someone else's life.
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People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.
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What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.
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I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.
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