191 Quotes by John Hurt

I think it's interesting to see how things come into and go out of fashion.

I don't like no confusion.

I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9. And I was at a very bizarre prep school at the time, to say high Anglo-Catholic would be a real English understatement.

I think you can fan the flames, but I think in the same way that a mathematician is a mathematician - He's not taught to be a mathematician. He either has a feeling for equations and an understanding and delight in it, not only in the purity of it, but in its beauty as well.

When you're really working well with a director then you can be as outrageous as you like and so can he. And there's no worry about it.

Obviously, the arrogance of my own nature in regards to other people's work would suggest that I think I'm talented.

My springboard is always the script. Even if the script is taken from a novel, I often haven't read the novel... .

I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think that's definitely a gift of genes or whatever.

I was keen on sports-that's how my nose got this way. It's not actually broken; the nose was just pushed up a little bit and moved over. It's an aquiline nose, quite Irish.