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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
David
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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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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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The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done
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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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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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Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.
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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 know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process
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All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.
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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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What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.
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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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I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people
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I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die.
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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 was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
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Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.
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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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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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I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.
William Hurt