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I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think that's definitely a gift of genes or whatever, you know? Whatever your pool is.
- John Hurt
#Better
#Gift
#Know
#Mathematics
#School
I have done quite a lot of outsider figures.
- John Hurt
#Done
#Figures
#Lot
#Outsider
#Quite
As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.
- John Hurt
#Die
#Enough
#Forgotten
#Said
#Well
My criteria when looking for a role is that I will do anything that stands the chance of succeeding on the level it is intended to. After that, if it's a part I can do something personal with.
- John Hurt
#Anything
#Chance
#I Can
#Looking
#Will
I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.
- John Hurt
#Everything
#Hope
#I Can
#Mind
#Process
My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.
- John Hurt
#Acting
#Me
#More
#Painting
#Parents
Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.
- John Hurt
#Acting
#Circumstances
#Different
#Leap
I'm not really a big musical fan. I enjoyed 'West Side Story' when it came out, but it gets a bit tired in the end.
- John Hurt
#Big
#End
#In The End
#Story
#Tired
I gave up religious thinking a long time ago and am really just an agnostic now.
- John Hurt
#Long Time
#Long
#Now
#Thinking
#Time
Really, I'm only alive out of curiosity. I'm very curious about where we're all marching.
- John Hurt
#About
#Alive
#Curiosity
#Curious
#Only
Also the wonderful thing about film, you can see light at the end of the tunnel. You did realise that it is going to come to an end at some stage.
- John Hurt
#End Of The Tunnel
#Film
#Light
#Stage
I seem to watch less and less television. The best thing in 'Downton Abbey' is Penelope Wilton. She is always worth the watch.
- John Hurt
#Always
#Best
#She
#Television
#Worth
To me, nothing ever feels like a sure thing. I cling to that because it's very important you don't ever think anything is a sure thing.
- John Hurt
#Anything
#Important
#Like
#Me
#Nothing
Everything that came to me, in terms of the ritzier side of performing, was a plus.
- John Hurt
#Came
#Everything
#Me
#Plus
#Side
Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.
- John Hurt
#Full
#Ironies
#Life
#Paradoxes
Things come in a quieter way to me. It's not laziness, and it's not diffidence. I just know how far you have to bend for work. That's important for me.
- John Hurt
#Important
#Laziness
#Me
#Way
#Work
I've never been pushy. People have said I should have been, more, but I'm not sure. I've watched hugely ambitious people: the minute they've got a success, they know where it's going, they know how to deal with it, and it all happens for them. Great. But that's not the way I - well, I don't like to use the word 'operate'.
- John Hurt
#Great
#Never
#People
#Success
#Way
'The Naked Civil Servant' was as important for me as 'Easy Rider' was for Jack Nicholson. No question.
- John Hurt
#Easy
#Important
#Me
#Naked
#Question
Half the stuff I have done which has been successful would never have been made if it had been shown to focus groups.
- John Hurt
#Done
#Focus
#Half
#Never
#Successful
I first got involved with Mel Brooks through 'The Elephant Man.' Everybody knows now, but they didn't know at the time that he was the producer.
- John Hurt
#Elephant
#First
#Know
#Man
#Time
Picasso was hugely innovative, and, wow, did he have facility, amazing ability, but I don't think he painted a masterpiece.
- John Hurt
#Ability
#Amazing
#Did
#He
#Masterpiece
#Wow
I'm fascinated by the business of belief, obviously, because it's so ever present with humanity anyway. And, you know, when you have science, which constantly talks of proofs, you have religion, which constantly talks of beliefs and faith and so on.
- John Hurt
#Business
#Faith
#Know
#Religion
#Science
We're all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly.
- John Hurt
#Chair
#Just
#Our
#Passing
#Time
We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.
- John Hurt
#Best
#Death
#God
#Great
#Wonder
I'd love to claim that what I have done in my life is of my doing, but it's not of my doing at all. I've blown around in the wind like a mad thing, influenced by this and that - like a piece of paper: like the boy in that scene in 'American Beauty' watching a piece of paper blowing hither and thither.
- John Hurt
#Beauty
#Life
#Love
#My Life
#Wind
I've never felt that anger is a very powerful emotion.
- John Hurt
#Anger
#Emotion
#Felt
#Never
#Powerful
The difference between anger and deep remorse - remorse is much fatter. It's a deeper feeling altogether. Anger is too easy an escape for my money.
- John Hurt
#Anger
#Difference
#Easy
#Escape
#Money
I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding.
- John Hurt
#Activity
#Gardening
#Like
#Lot
#Physical
I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.
- John Hurt
#Big
#Finance
#I Can
#Money
#Order
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