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«I loathed school. I don't have an academic mind, and besides I was so bored by my teachers! How teachers can take a child's inventiveness and say yes, yes, in that pontifical way of theirs, and smother everything!»
Author: John Hurt
«What's the difference, actually, between believing in a God on one side or the other, Catholic or Protestant? It's all the same if you accept it. Much of our morality is based on things completely outmoded. But people are wonderful. There's no harm in them, they're not the problem. It's governments and politics that make wars and do stupid things, and they should be attended to. There's no security in this life.»
Author: John Hurt
«I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.»
Author: John Hurt
«It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater.»
Author: John Hurt
«I think the director, John Huston, took on the picture because he's been trying to outdo his father, Walter Huston, and that's impossible. How do you cope with a genius? I couldn't communicate with my own father.»
Author: John Hurt
«I left drama school and went straight into a 10-week film for which I was paid $75 I might say, which for 1962 was one heck of a lot of money.»
Author: John Hurt
«I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9. And I was at a very bizarre prep school at the time, to say high Anglo-Catholic would be a real English understatement.»
Author: John Hurt
«I was keen on sports-that's how my nose got this way. It's not actually broken; the nose was just pushed up a little bit and moved over. It's an aquiline nose, quite Irish.»
Author: John Hurt
«If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.»
Author: John Hurt
«His life has really opened up since I made him a Senator»
Author: John Hurt
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