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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
William Hurt
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William Hurt
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 20
Film Actor
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Washington
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William McChord Hurt
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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 demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.
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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 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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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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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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And I don't want to use my troubles as an example of what to do and what not to do.
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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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Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure
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Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.
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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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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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Also CSPAN is really the great treasure of the media as far as getting information.
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The greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.
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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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The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done
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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 Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright
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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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