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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
Washington
District of Columbia
William McChord Hurt
Acting
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Love
Creative

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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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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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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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I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision
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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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All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.
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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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