John Hurt Quotes

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• We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.

  John Hurt

  Men, Intellectual, Racing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

  John Hurt

  Ifs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

  John Hurt

  Forgotten, Enough, Said

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2000.

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• I am really the victim of other people's imagination.

  John Hurt

  People, Imagination, Victim

  Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

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• Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

  John Hurt

  Perspective, Each Day, Progression

  "John Hurt: 'I'd be a rubbish spy'" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2011.

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• The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

  John Hurt

  Believe, Concessions

  Source: www.filmslatemagazine.com

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• I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

  John Hurt

  Sorry, Wine, Everything Happens For A Reason

  Gurdian Interview, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2000.

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• Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

  John Hurt

  Moral, Redefining, Immoral

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• In anything really, it's finding the reality. You can't be 'real,' but you can create a reality. And that created reality is what the audience believes in. And that's essential. Because if the audience doesn't believe that, they're never going to trust you. And if they don't trust you, you can't lead them up the mountain.

  John Hurt

  Real, Believe, Mountain

  Source: www.filmslatemagazine.com

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• I loathed school. I don't have an academic mind, and besides I was so bored by my teachers! How teachers can take a child's inventiveness and say yes, yes, in that pontifical way of theirs, and smother everything!

  John Hurt

  Teacher, Children, School

  "Sir John Hurt's Best Quotes: on Mortality, Drinking, His Career and Downton Abbey". www.telegraph.co.uk. January 28, 2017.

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• Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

  John Hurt

  Irony, Life Is, Paradox

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. March 22, 2007.

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• Obviously, the arrogance of my own nature in regards to other people's work would suggest that I think I'm talented.

  John Hurt

  Thinking, People, Arrogance

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• Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

  John Hurt

  Business, Essence, Games

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2000.

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• I think it's interesting to see how things come into and go out of fashion.

  John Hurt

  Fashion, Thinking, Interesting

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. March 22, 2007.

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• The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.

  John Hurt

  Different, Actors, Clergy

  "John Hurt: the naked actor". Interview with Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2007.

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• I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.

  John Hurt

  Stars, Ambition, Embarrassed

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2000.

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• I think I'd rather do [acting] in the real place. It requires different things, working with green screen, but its an imaginative exercise anyway, the whole business of acting, so it just gives you a bit more to feed the imagination. Unless it's really silly, just two of you stuck in a space with nothing but green screen that's got to be pretty difficult.

  John Hurt

  Real, Silly, Exercise

  Source: www.filmslatemagazine.com

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• Acting is an imaginative leap, really. And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it's being able - I can't tell you how one does, but one tries to read those circumstances correctly.

  John Hurt

  Imagination, Trying, Acting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've never known what I've wanted to do. I've never planned anything in my life.

  John Hurt

  Wanted, Known

  Source: www.filmslatemagazine.com

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• When you're really working well with a director then you can be as outrageous as you like and so can he. And there's no worry about it.

  John Hurt

  Worry, Directors, No Worries

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2000.

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• Also the wonderful thing about film, you can see light at the end of the tunnel. You did realize that it is going to come to an end at some stage.

  John Hurt

  Tunnels, Light, Realizing

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2000.

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• I think, you have to forget about intellect, to a degree. Intuition is very important when you're working with a lens, I believe, for what the lens is doing, too.

  John Hurt

  Believe, Thinking, Intuition

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.

  John Hurt

  Ambition, Would Be, Kind

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2000.

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• I think you can fan the flames, but I think in the same way that a mathematician is a mathematician - He's not taught to be a mathematician. He either has a feeling for equations and an understanding and delight in it, not only in the purity of it, but in its beauty as well.

  John Hurt

  Thinking, Flames, Feelings

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

  John Hurt

  Character, Light, Darkness

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