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Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure

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
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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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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 need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out
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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 want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.
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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 a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.
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Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.
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I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people
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The greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.
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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 just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.
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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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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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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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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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I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations.
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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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