William Hurt Quotes

"You don't look at it as the size of the role. Quantity is not the point. You can be as thorough in 30 seconds as you can in three hours."
-William Hurt

"Being stared at is not fun . . . There are times when someone on the street says, "Are you William Hurt?" and I will say, "No, not at the moment.""
-William Hurt

"I need to exist as an actor. . . . There is frustration. But that's not my primary experience. The primary experience is, "Today I'm gonna go try." When I get it, it feels wonderful. But even trying feels good."
-William Hurt

"David's working on subjects that interest me."
-William Hurt

"What if you went to the nth degree to prove to yourself that you're the person you want to be? But you found that it's completely different from the person that you are, and you found yourself in a place that consistently refuted the facts as you sensed them?"
-William Hurt

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

"He'll even let himself be characterized as perverse. He's not. He's the opposite of perverse. He's coaxing our perversions, our suppressed perversions, into the open and helping us to deal with them in this wonderful way."
-William Hurt