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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
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Television Actor
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William McChord Hurt
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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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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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Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure
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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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Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.
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The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright
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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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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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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 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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I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process
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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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I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
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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 listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations.
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