129 Quotes by William Hurt

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character.

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done.

The enemies of acting are mood and attitude and other general homogenized disruptive entities. Whereas acting is about action - doing - and unless you can figure out a way to craft in an imaginative reality to which you don't submit, you're going to be out of control. You'll flip out. The job is to be surprised.

We'd like to prearrange our life on all levels. We'd prefer it to be scripted. But it's not.

The funnel of deep feeling and profound satisfaction in life comes from the capacity to feel.

I was very lucky when I was a kid - I travelled a lot and spent a lot of time in Africa, Asia and Europe. I also chant in Sanskrit.

I am just as comfortable in Britain and France as I am in America... but nowhere is perfect.

I don't have any artifacts of my profession in my house; the Oscar is in storage.