Quotes William Hurt

All I know is that my best work has come out of being commit...

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that ma...

Being famous is not something that would make me feel succes...

But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it,...

David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists....

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

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb kno...

I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the sa...

I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks...

I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to d...

I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone...

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

I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news...

I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and...

I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you...

I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out an...

I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, ...

I was a science fiction junkie for a long time....

I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robb...

I'm working on a De Niro film right now called The Good Shep...

I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying ...

If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you...

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent fi...

It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After ...

Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitra...