"Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting."

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Source : Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2000.

John Hurt

#Essence Quotes #Games Quotes #People Quotes

“I want to show you that you can leap tall buildings, walk through walls, and change reality.”
“Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.”
“You have to open up to the world and learn optimism...Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.”
“And there's a period where everyone's buying those and it's really bad because no one is Larry David or Ricky Gervais. And then they don't work and networks stop wanting to buy them, but because they wanted to buy them before the producer wanted to make them, the producers are still hanging on to wanting to make them.”

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“If I had a hotdog in my hand, he would've had tomato ketchup on his face.”
“The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.”
“I'm real critical of myself and if I take the bandana off my head I'm completely bald headed and go from being 58 to looking 68 instantly.”
“It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy.”

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