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
Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.
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.
The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.
Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.
David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.
I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go.
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.
I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.
I'm not comfortable with walking the red carpet in a tuxedo and seeing all the women with their boobs pushed up and all the men dressed as penguins - particularly when the subject of your film is the nature of violence and humanity.
I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily
All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.
The art is about opening, it is not about prejudice, it is not about contempt prior to investigation. It's about endlessly trying to keep from having contempt by admitting that you don't know. Even if you know a lot compared to some other people, usually, I think, the honest experience would be: "God, how little I know! And how much I need to have compassion for myself and for other people."
Also CSPAN is really the great treasure of the media as far as getting information.
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.