John Hurt Quotes & Sayings
75 most famous John Hurt quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's an 84 year old British actor born on Jan 22, 1940.
“Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.”
“As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.”
“Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.”
“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.”
“My father's a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.”
“Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.”
“I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film is a peculiar thing, parts don't necessarily read in script form anything like as well as they can do when it comes to materialising.”
“Things come in a quieter way to me. It's not laziness, and it's not diffidence. I just know how far you have to bend for work. That's important for me.”
“You can't lose your concentration at all. And there are times when you're on the stage, and you've got silence, which is wonderful, but you have to have the confidence to make you realize it's fine. You can't suddenly wobble and think, 'They're not interested.'”
“The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a few days, but then I have to discipline myself quite fiercely if I want to do some painting that's worthwhile. Otherwise, you're just doodling. It's much easier when you're just told what you have to do.”
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