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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
William Hurt
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William Hurt
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 20
Film Actor
Film Producer
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Washington
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William McChord Hurt
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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 Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright
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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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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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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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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'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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I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.
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Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.
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Also CSPAN is really the great treasure of the media as far as getting information.
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I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
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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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It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.
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I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations.
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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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The greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.
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The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done
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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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