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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
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William McChord Hurt
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I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
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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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David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.
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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'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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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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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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It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.
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I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.
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The greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.
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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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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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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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Also CSPAN is really the great treasure of the media as far as getting information.
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All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.
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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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What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.
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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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