129 Quotes by William Hurt

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 think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people.

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.

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

You don’t look at it as the size of the role. Quantity is not the point. You can be as thorough in 30 seconds as you can in three hours.

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

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.

And I don’t want to use my troubles as an example of what to do and what not to do.

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don’t get to the mainstream.