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" You cut off the capacity for grief in your life, and you cut off the joy at the same time. They both come up through the same tunnel. You don't have one without the other. "

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" 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. "

William Hurt

Life

Think

People

" The funnel of deep feeling and profound satisfaction in life comes from the capacity to feel. "

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

William Hurt

Famous

Feel

" I have a way of synthesizing. That's what I would encourage any young person to do: take in the ideas, the conflicts, and the world. Watch and listen and live before you go public. "

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

William Hurt

Perfect

I Am

" I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process. "

" The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact. "

William Hurt

Existence

Most

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You can only sit on the frustration of wanting to express something for so long. "

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

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

" Rage with panache. "

William Hurt

Rage

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

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

" The achievement is appreciation. Your ability to be surprised and awed by beauty! "

" I live in the county where my mother was born and buried. "

" I had great qualms about playing a man who was living. I've never met Walt McCandless, and I never will. "

" I'm not there to tailor the role to me: I'm there to tailor me to the role. That guarantees me something, a precious thing, which is creativity. I'm guaranteed that I will have a creative experience, because I will go to it, not demand that it comes to me. "

William Hurt

Creativity

Creative

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

" Celebrity is a pathological sickness of the culture. Narcissists on screen being consumed by narcissists off-screen. "

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

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

William Hurt

Late

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

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

William Hurt

Woody Allen

Once

" The problem with Google is you have 360 degrees of omnidirectional information on a linear basis, but the algorithms for irony and ambiguity are not there. And those are the algorithms of wisdom. "

" I didn't study interviews. I studied acting. "

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

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

William Hurt

Little

Couple

" 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. "