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I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die.

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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People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.
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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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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 demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.
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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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If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character
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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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Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure
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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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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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The greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.
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I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people
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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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I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.
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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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What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.
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I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way.
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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 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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