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" For as privileged an actor as I have been, TV as a standard is short shrift. They have to do it so quickly that they don't stop and take a look. They just shoot. So that's one of the reasons I typically stay away from it. I think art is an act of consideration, and if you're not considering, I don't think you're really doing mankind a favor. "

William Hurt

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" It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream. "

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" Fame... it's been a challenge, let's put it that way. It's a privilege and a responsibility, and I'm not sure I carried the responsibility well at times, which is embarrassing. And I've had to look and be disappointed in myself occasionally for how I behaved in some circumstances. "

" Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure. "

" I have never worked with anyone who I hold in higher esteem than Chris Menges. He's an absolute, bona fide, authentic artist. "

" I've made a couple of films that were a little too wide and non-specific - like 'The Doctor.' "

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" Post-adolescence reaches usually into the late 30s. "

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" 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. "

" Where did I study? I went to P.S. 6. I went to Collegiate, Middlesex, Tufts, Juilliard. "

" You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold. "

" Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful. "

" All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy. "

" Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study. "

" I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people. "

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

" I don't have any artifacts of my profession in my house; the Oscar is in storage. "

" I generally try to think of what it is I want to express and then find a way of expressing it. "

" If you don't exercise, you don't stay strong. I like to work with talented people. "

" The thing is David is also aware of everything and it's not like you're going somewhere the director is not. "

" I'm never happier than when I'm with my family. "

" The enemies of acting are mood and attitude and other general homogenized disruptive entities. Whereas acting is about action - doing - and unless you can figure out a way to craft in an imaginative reality to which you don't submit, you're going to be out of control. You'll flip out. The job is to be surprised. "

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

" 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. "

" You get older, and people start passing away. And so if you're lucky - my mom died very young, for instance, and I have friends who died very young - but the point being that, I think if you're awake, you know you're going to pass on. And that the real treasure in life is the long term - relationships that you really value. "

" My greatest offering is my concept. It isn't my face. "

" 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. "

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" We get so intellectual that we forget that we're physical creatures. "