22 Quotations by John Hurt
- 1. Being a painter is a lonely, desolate life, but I learned by observing people, observing conditions ...
- 2. I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read ...
- 3. I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9. And I was at a very bizarre prep school at the ti ...
- 4. I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film.
- 5. I left drama school and went straight into a 10-week film for which I was paid $75 I might say, whic ...
- 6. I loathed school. I don't have an academic mind, and besides I was so bored by my teachers! How teac ...
- 7. I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the par ...
- 8. I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the wo ...
- 9. I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a ...
- 10. I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of ...
- 11. I think the director, John Huston, took on the picture because he's been trying to outdo his father, ...
- 12. I was keen on sports-that's how my nose got this way. It's not actually broken; the nose was just pu ...
- 13. I've spent a great deal of my life doing independent film, and that is partly because the subject ma ...
- 14. If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre does ...
- 15. It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.
- 16. My springboard is always the script. Even if the script is taken from a novel, I often haven't read ...
- 17. My voice has been blamed on Guinness and on Gauloises and all sorts of things like that but I'm here ...
- 18. Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything ...
- 19. The drink was effecting me badly. I was feeling lousy especially in the morning. Now I have a much f ...
- 20. What's the difference, actually, between believing in a God on one side or the other, Catholic or Pr ...
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