William Hurt Quotes

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.
William Hurt

Dad, Successful, Father

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.
William Hurt

Famous, Successful, Mediocrity

Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.
William Hurt

Great, Long, Study

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.
William Hurt

Courage, Knowledge, Become

I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.
William Hurt

Point, Artists, Prove

All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.
William Hurt

Work, Best, Happy

But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.
William Hurt

Amazing, Live, Here

David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.
William Hurt

Knows, Artists, David

I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go.
William Hurt

Life, Time, Same

I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.
William Hurt

Either, Six, Paid

I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way.
William Hurt

Time, Long, Woman

I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die.
William Hurt

Someone, Him, Die

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.
William Hurt

Love, Acting, Creative

I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations.
William Hurt

Listen, News, Radio

I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out.
William Hurt

Women, Took, Months

I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people.
William Hurt

Yourself, Help, Understand

I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision.
William Hurt

Decision, Balance, Standing

I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
William Hurt

Time, Science, Long

I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night.
William Hurt

Night, Almost, Middle

I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging.
William Hurt

Good, Saying, America

If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character.
William Hurt

Character, Chance, Days

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.
William Hurt

Seems, Films, Mainstream

It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it.
William Hurt

Life, Trying, After

Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard.
William Hurt

Time, Hard, Trying

People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.
William Hurt

Time, Luck, Rehearsal

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: March 20, 1950

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