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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.

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
Privilege
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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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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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Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.
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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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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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It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.
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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 just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die.
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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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The greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.
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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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