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I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process
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
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District of Columbia
William McChord Hurt
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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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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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Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.
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I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.
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Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.
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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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Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure
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I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people
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All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.
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Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.
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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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What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.
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The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done
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I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations.
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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 Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright
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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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People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.
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