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William Hurt
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William Hurt
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 20
Film Actor
Film Producer
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Washington
District of Columbia
William McChord Hurt
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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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People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.
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I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process
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I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
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I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people
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I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.
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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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Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure
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The greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.
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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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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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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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Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.
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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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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 demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.
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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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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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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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