Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It’s a progression of some sort. John Hurt Read Quote
I’ve always felt, and I think I’m qualified to say so because I’ve won a few awards, that it’s a terrible shame to put something in competition with something else to be able to sell something. John Hurt Read Quote
I’ve never been pushy. People have said I should have been, more, but I’m not sure. I’ve watched hugely ambitious people: the minute they’ve got a success, they know where it’s going, they know how to deal with it, and it all happens for them. Great. But that’s not the way I – well, I don’t like to use the word ‘operate’. John Hurt Read Quote
The Naked Civil Servant’ was as important for me as ‘Easy Rider’ was for Jack Nicholson. No question. John Hurt Read Quote
I’ve done a couple of conferences where you sit and sign autographs for people, and then you have photographs taken with them and a lot of them all dressed up in alien suits or ‘Doctor Who’ whatevers. I was terrified of doing it because I thought they’d all be loonies, but they are absolutely, totally charming as anything. It’s great fun. John Hurt Read Quote
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. John Hurt Read Quote
Picasso was hugely innovative, and, wow, did he have facility, amazing ability, but I don’t think he painted a masterpiece. John Hurt Read Quote
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. John Hurt Read Quote
Very, very broadly speaking, you can put directors into two areas: One for whom you work, and the other with whom you work. And I prefer the latter, for obvious reasons. It’s a great relief to feel that you’re working with someone rather than for someone. John Hurt Read Quote
