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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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All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.
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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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But it's also another myth to think that you should be as tight as a drum and not have any frailties or fragilities.
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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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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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Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure
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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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But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.
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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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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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I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision
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