191 Quotes by John Hurt

My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.

One thing that is likely to make you lose touch is if you keep in touch with the past too much.

It's a great relief to feel that you're working with someone rather than for someone. You don't feel that you're being tested, as it were.

My criteria when looking for a role is that I will do anything that stands the chance of succeeding on the level it is intended to. After that, if it's a part I can do something personal with.

It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.

My father's a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.

If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.

I didn't consider myself to be pretty, not at all.

I don't know whether I inspire anything in anyone.