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You don't look at it as the size of the role. Quantity is not the point. You can be as thorough in 30 seconds as you can in three hours.
William Hurt
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William Hurt
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 20
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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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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 greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.
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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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Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.
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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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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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Also CSPAN is really the great treasure of the media as far as getting information.
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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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