John Hurt Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• 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.

• I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think that's definitely a gift of genes or whatever.

  John Hurt

  School, Thinking, Talking

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

• I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9. And I was at a very bizarre prep school at the time, to say high Anglo-Catholic would be a real English understatement.

  John Hurt

  Real, School, Catholic

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I left drama school and went straight into a 10-week film for which I was paid £75 I might say, which for 1962 was one heck of a lot of money.

  John Hurt

  Drama, School, Might

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

• I've got plenty of train memories. I was sent to school when I was eight years old in 1948 in Kent. So I had to go through London in 1948, just after the war. Many ,many strange experiences.

  John Hurt

  Memories, War, School

  Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

• A mathematician 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. I don't think that's something that you learn at school. I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think that's definitely a gift of genes or whatever, you know? Whatever your pool is.

  John Hurt

  School, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: film.avclub.com

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