William Hurt
William Hurt
William McChord Hurtis an American stage and film actor. He received his acting training at the Juilliard School and began acting on stage in the 1970s. Hurt made his film debut as a troubled scientist in the science-fiction feature Altered States, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year. He subsequently played a leading role, as a lawyer who succumbs to the temptations of Kathleen Turner, in the neo-noir Body Heat...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth20 March 1950
CountryUnited States of America
Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure
It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.
I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out
People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.
The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing, which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.
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
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
I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die.
But it's also another myth to think that you should be as tight as a drum and not have any frailties or fragilities.
And I don't want to use my troubles as an example of what to do and what not to do.
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.
I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.
What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.