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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.
William Hurt
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I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.
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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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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.
William Hurt
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People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.
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I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision.
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I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people.
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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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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.
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If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character.
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The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done.
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Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.
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The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.
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Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.
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