John Hurt Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• 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.

• This whole theory of alienation that intellectuals have been passing on, really is just to stop a lot of ham acting. If you fill something with a proper emotion, it didn't worry him at all.

  John Hurt

  Passing On, Worry, Acting

  Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

• 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

• Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? 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: film.avclub.com

• I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.

  John Hurt

  Party, Cowboy, Acting

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

• There is always a better choice that you were unable to quite touch with a single stroke. Even in acting, there comes a point, like a painting, where you have to say, "That's it. I can't go any further with it." And sometimes, you say, "I'm really pleased that that's where it's finished up." Other times, you think, "I don't think I really quite got there, but I haven't got time to go any further." Rather reluctantly, you have to say "That's it."

  John Hurt

  Thinking, Choices, Acting

  Source: film.avclub.com

• My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.

  John Hurt

  Insecure, Thinking, Parent

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

• 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

• What I like about [Berthold] Brecht, it's very interesting. When Helene Weigel came over and somebody talked about Lotte Lenya and said "well, she wasn't alienating." And Weigel said "No, no, no. Why, Lotte Lenya was so true - who cares?" She said: "Berti only developed the theory of alienation in order to stop bad acting." I heard her say that. Now that's brilliant.

  John Hurt

  Order, Interesting, Acting

  Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

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