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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
Film Producer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Washington
District of Columbia
William McChord Hurt
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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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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 need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out
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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 greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.
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David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.
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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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Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.
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I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.
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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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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 very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision
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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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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 was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
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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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I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die.
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