Also the wonderful thing about film, you can see light at the end of the tunnel. You did realise that it is going to come to an end at some stage.

John Hurt

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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.

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I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.

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I wanted to work with those boys (producers Andy and Larry Wachowski) because they're so eccentric and peculiar. Larry, of course, is halfway towards being a woman now. It's a crazy world.

crazy peculiar boys

My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her.

mother father thinking

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.

interviews change years

I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film is a peculiar thing, parts don't necessarily read in script form anything like as well as they can do when it comes to materialising.

scripts peculiar trying

My fathers a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.

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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.

broken noses sports

My springboard is always the script. Even if the script is taken from a novel, I often haven't read the novel...

scripts novel taken

We're all far too afraid of being so arrogant to say "Either you... by John Hurt

We're all far too afraid of being so arrogant to say "Either you can or you can't."

arrogant

I have recently been diagnosed with early stage pancreatic cancer. I am undergoing treatment and am more than optimistic about a satisfactory outcome, as indeed is the medical team.

entertainment

We're all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly. by John Hurt

We're all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly.

chair our just time

How my film career happened, I don't know. It was unplanned. I'd been in films and TV throughout the Sixties and early Seventies, but it was really 'The Naked Civil Servant' in 1975 that put me on the radar.

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I've done a couple of conferences where you sit and sign autographs for people, and then you have photographs taken with them and a lot of them all dressed up in alien suits or 'Doctor Who' whatevers. I was terrified of doing it because I thought they'd all be loonies, but they are absolutely, totally charming as anything. It's great fun.

doctor great you people

Really, I'm only alive out of curiosity. I'm very curious about w... by John Hurt

Really, I'm only alive out of curiosity. I'm very curious about where we're all marching.

only curious alive curiosity

The things that I've enjoyed most are not really science fiction. They are not much fun to make because there are so many toys involved. They are fun for directors who like toys, like Ridley Scott, but they are not a lot of fun to make. A lot of hanging around, changing this and that.

hanging toys fun science

I've done all sorts of children's things before, but none as big... by John Hurt

I've done all sorts of children's things before, but none as big as 'Harry Potter.'

big things done children

Don't forget there are two sides to performing. Finding the truth, but you also have to be transparent enough for the audience to see it. How many times have you seen a performance and thought: 'Well, it seems to be meaning a great deal to you but it ain't coming across to me?' It is to be shared.

great me you truth

I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling... by John Hurt

I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding.

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I first got involved with Mel Brooks through 'The Elephant Man.' Everybody knows now, but they didn't know at the time that he was the producer.

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