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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
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William McChord Hurt
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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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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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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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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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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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The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware this to me is the most astounding fact.
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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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The greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.
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