129 Quotes by William Hurt

But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.

The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.

The thing is David is also aware of everything and it's not like you're going somewhere the director is not.

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.

I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging