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"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."
"At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?"
"It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show."
"Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing."
Explore more quotes by John Hurt
"My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure."
"I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio."
"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."
"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."
"It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor."
"I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick."
"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."
"If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind."
"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 never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word."
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