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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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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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I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people
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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'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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What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.
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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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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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All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.
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I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
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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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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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David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.
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Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.
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I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.
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Also CSPAN is really the great treasure of the media as far as getting information.
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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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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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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 know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process
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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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