I had great qualms about playing a man who was living. I’ve never met Walt McCandless, and I never will. William Hurt Read Quote
Celebrity is a pathological sickness of the culture. Narcissists on screen being consumed by narcissists off-screen. William Hurt Read Quote
I have a way of synthesizing. That’s what I would encourage any young person to do: take in the ideas, the conflicts, and the world. Watch and listen and live before you go public. William Hurt Read Quote
I’m coming from the notion that acting is an art. It is not a business. It is about building characters, not about selling personalities. William Hurt Read Quote
I don’t want my children to have to wade through the crap to get to the cream, you know. I want them to be aware that I struggled to live with and tell my truth, and that it was a decent thing. William Hurt Read Quote
I’ve made a couple of films that were a little too wide and non-specific – like ‘The Doctor.’ William Hurt Read Quote
I’m not there to tailor the role to me: I’m there to tailor me to the role. That guarantees me something, a precious thing, which is creativity. I’m guaranteed that I will have a creative experience, because I will go to it, not demand that it comes to me. William Hurt Read Quote
I’m an actor. I play roles in films and theaters. I don’t act out, and I don’t play people. William Hurt Read Quote
