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I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people
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 need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out
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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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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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Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.
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What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.
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I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations.
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I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way.
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I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.
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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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Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.
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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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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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The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware this to me is the most astounding fact.
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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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David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.
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Also CSPAN is really the great treasure of the media as far as getting information.
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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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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.
William Hurt
