191 Quotes by John Hurt

I think it would be very difficult to play somebody if they didn't think they had any virtues or redeeming characteristics.

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.

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.

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.

I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film.

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 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.

We're all far too afraid of being so arrogant to say "Either you can or you can't."

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.