John Hurt
John Hurt
Sir John Vincent Hurt, CBE is an English actor whose career has spanned six decades. He initially came to prominence for his supporting role as Richard Rich in the film A Man for All Seasons. Since then he has played leading roles as Quentin Crisp in the film The Naked Civil Servant, John Merrick in David Lynch's biopic The Elephant Man, Winston Smith in the dystopian drama Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mr. Braddock in the Stephen Frears drama The Hit, and Stephen...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth22 January 1940
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I've done all sorts of children's things before, but none as big as 'Harry Potter.'
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Everybody, I think, that was in 'Harry Potter' was certainly introduced to an enormous lot of young people.
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It's going to put the cat among the pigeons, and that's not a bad thing, it seems to me.
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We're not approaching it to make a carbon copy of what we did last time but we've tended to come back to the way we were thinking then. More to the point, I'm creeping up toward being old enough for it now.
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Ultimately, the film industry has always pushed out its biggies, and I don't have a problem with that. I just wish that we'd spend more time nurturing the smaller ones.
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Where humanity is going to find itself in, say, 20, 30, 40, or 50 years would be very difficult to predict, I think. There are moments, of course, when you think that it's going from bad to worse, but there are other moments when you think that human efforts are really flowering into something really fantastic.
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We are going to try to either not work on football weekends or work in ways that don't affect traffic where maybe we won't close the whole thing or maybe just close one side. We also have the holiday season coming up. We've got this entire shopping center, we've got a complex on either side of the interstate. We have to take them into consideration.
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Water will begin to slide down those hills toward the flat intersection and hold it until it has an opportunity to drain.
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Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.
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They got the apartment, they got the free place to live. They got priority over the Houston unemployed right now.
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There's an awful lot of hanging around when you're doing science fiction. Going down and waiting for them to set up, being told to go back to your dressing room while they change the track and the lighting and so on.
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You've got to shout to make yourself heard in this business. It's unfortunate, but true-if you don't spell everything out in your contract, you've got only yourself to blame for the treatment you get. Otherwise, whether it's having a caravan-a dressing-room trailer-on the set each day, or whatever it is, you don't get it.
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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.'
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As far as movies go, my master is Fred Zinnemann.