The best Quotes by John Hurt

The best Quotes by John Hurt

Sir John Vincent Hurt CBE (22 January 1940 – 25 January 2017) was an English actor whose career spanned over five decades. He played in A Man for All Seasons (1966), The Naked Civil Servant (1975), I, Claudius (1976), Midnight Express (1978), The Elephant Man (1980), Alien (1979), Heaven's Gate (1980) and many other movies.

If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind.
Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.
My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.
I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio.
I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.