William Hurt is a famous Actor from USA, he is 74 years old and still alive, born March 20, 1950.
Zodiac:
He is born under the zodiac pisces, who is known for Fluctuation, Depth, Imagination, Reactive, Indecisive.
Our collection contains 30 quotes who is written / told by William, under the main topic Dad.
"The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done"
"People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't"
"I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die"
"I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way"
"David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists"
"The thing is David is also aware of everything and it's not like you're going somewhere the director is not"
"Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful"
"It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it"
"I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily"
"I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out"
"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"
"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"
"If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character"
"I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people"
"I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go"
"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"
"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 simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact"
"Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure"
"I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night"
"I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations"
"It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream"
"I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either"
"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"
"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 was a science fiction junkie for a long time"
"I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision"
"I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process"
"Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study"
