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" I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging. "

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" I am not a famous person at home - I'm just a guy here. I'm a father, I'm a companion, I'm a human being. I am not a public figure in my house; I am not a celebrity. I am not a famous person to myself - I am just a guy. "

William Hurt

Famous

Myself

I Am

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

" I grew up in the South Pacific. Basically, my brothers were Guamanian. I spoke words of Guamanian long before I spoke words of English, and so I've seen a lot. You know, I've traveled in places where people don't have the benefits of American life. And so I've seen a lot of stuff. "

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

" 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. "

William Hurt

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Heroes

" Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity. "

William Hurt

Famous

Feel

" I don't put the truth in a cage. I try to find a way to release it. "

" I am constantly asked, 'What's the difference between acting in the theater and acting in film?' The only answer I can give is the space - you adapt to the space. But acting is acting. "

" I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die. "

" My first cousin, by the way, on my father's mother side was John Marshall Harlan, who was a Supreme Court justice, as was his grandson. And I think a lot of my fight and my work to struggle for fairness and the techniques of theater and in subject matter probably stems in some way from some sense I have of his issues in life. "

" The irony is that the more specific you are in the portrayal of character, the more like other people you are. In the same way, the more you think about how alone you are in this life, you realise how much a brother and sister everyone else is. "

" There's fear or faith. If you're living by fear, then you're always looking for security. If you're living by faith, then you're always looking for freedom. "

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

William Hurt

Late

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

" Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard. "

" I am just as comfortable in Britain and France as I am in America... but nowhere is perfect. "

William Hurt

Perfect

I Am

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

" If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I haven't planned a reaction on anything... If you do, you've screwed up. "

William Hurt

Reaction

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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. "

" Woody Allen asked me to improv once. I said no. "

William Hurt

Woody Allen

Once

" I'm coming from the notion that acting is an art. It is not a business. It is about building characters, not about selling personalities. "

" Play is play, fun is fun, and work is work. They're different. I work hard; even if it's supposed to be fun for someone else, it's work for me. "

William Hurt

Work

Fun

" It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it. "

" When you are a kid, you are beset by fears, and you think, 'I'll solve the fear by living forever and becoming a movie star.' "

" I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out. "

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