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"Don't waste time on employment, discover yourself today."
"You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around."
"I was very lucky. I started my own commercial company."
"There is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around."
"Joblessness gives you liberty."
"Joblessness brings you face to face with destiny."
"The purpose of employment is not to make money."
"Novelist by day, screenwriter by night."
Explore more quotes by John Hurt
"If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong."
"I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit."
"Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting."
"It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater."
"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."
"I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film is a peculiar thing, parts don't necessarily read in script form anything like as well as they can do when it comes to materialising."
"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."
"Also the wonderful thing about film, you can see light at the end of the tunnel. You did realise that it is going to come to an end at some stage."
"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."
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