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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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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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Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.
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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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I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
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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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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 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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