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John Hurt Quotes

«I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio.»
Author: John Hurt
«It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.»
Author: John Hurt
«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.»
Author: John Hurt
«As far as movies go, my master is Fred Zinnemann.»
Author: John Hurt
«I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick.»
Author: John Hurt
«I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.»
Author: John Hurt
«My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her.»
Author: John Hurt
«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.»
Author: John Hurt
«As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.»
Author: John Hurt
«The drink was effecting me badly. I was feeling lousy especially in the morning. Now I have a much fuller time with people. The more you don't drink the more you find you can be high as a kite anyway. I had huge fun when I was drinking. But towards the end I was not genuinely enjoying it. I drank mainly for enthusiasm, to prolong the night and the laughter and the conversation.»
Author: John Hurt

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