191 Quotes by John Hurt

I gave up religious thinking a long time ago and am really just an agnostic now.

Half the stuff I have done which has been successful would never have been made if it had been shown to focus groups.

Everybody's got to work with Roger Corman. You can't leave out that experience.

I find it hard to imagine that anyone could be intimidated by me.

'The Naked Civil Servant' was as important for me as 'Easy Rider' was for Jack Nicholson. No question.

Acting is an imaginative exercise. It would be odd if you didn't try to identify with the roles you play, but I think I can differentiate between where my imagination is leading me and where I actually am.

I see myself as an interpretative actor rather than a creative one.

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.

Everyone I've ever played has been flawed.