129 Quotes by William Hurt

I'm never happier than when I'm with my family.

I don't put the truth in a cage. I try to find a way to release it.

I don't want my children to have to wade through the crap to get to the cream, you know. I want them to be aware that I struggled to live with and tell my truth, and that it was a decent thing.

I'm coming from the notion that acting is an art. It is not a business. It is about building characters, not about selling personalities.

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.

I have a way of synthesizing. That's what I would encourage any young person to do: take in the ideas, the conflicts, and the world. Watch and listen and live before you go public.

Celebrity is a pathological sickness of the culture. Narcissists on screen being consumed by narcissists off-screen.

I had great qualms about playing a man who was living. I've never met Walt McCandless, and I never will.

Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard.