191 Quotes by John Hurt

I left drama school and went straight into a 10-week film for which I was paid $75 I might say, which for 1962 was one heck of a lot of money.

I love the uilleann pipes and listen to Ronan Browne who's an uilleann piper.

I knew I wanted to act from a very young age - from about nine, really - but I didn't know how to go about it. I had no idea. The world was a much bigger place then.

I like entertaining. I adore it. I feel I'm in the right place. Without question.

I'm very much of the opinion that to work is better than not to work.

I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding.

His life has really opened up since I made him a Senator

If I'm doing a play, 30 to 40 percent of the people that come to the stage door have pictures of 'Alien' for me to autograph. And usually, the photos are pretty gory ones.

How my film career happened, I don't know. It was unplanned. I'd been in films and TV throughout the Sixties and early Seventies, but it was really 'The Naked Civil Servant' in 1975 that put me on the radar.