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David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.

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 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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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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I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations.
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The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done
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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 very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision
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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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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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I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.
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I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.
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I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
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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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Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.
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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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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 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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The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware this to me is the most astounding fact.
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