John Hurt
1940-|
Biography
Born in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, England 
John Hurt Quotes
“I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick.”“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.” “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.” “My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don’t ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.” “Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.” “I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I’m still embarrassed at the word.” “It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don’t have any ambitions. I’ve never been that kind of performer.” “It’s an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater.” “As Beckett said, it’s not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.” “There are two kinds of directors - allies and judges.” “Lady Booze is a very cruel mistress.” “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.” “America only makes children’s pictures. I only go if I’m invited. I certainly wouldn’t go there to grub for work.” “I have lots of favourite memories but I can’t say that I have a favourite film.” “I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film is a peculiar thing, parts don’t necessarily read in script form anything like as well as they can do when it comes to materialising.” “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.” “It’s quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.” “Hollywood is simply geared to cheat you left, right and bloody centre.” “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.” “Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.” “My mother’s father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her.” “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.” “If you do an interview in 1960, something it’s bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn’t, then there’s something drastically wrong.” |
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The Actor
John Hurt has appeared in the following films:The Wild and the Willing (1962) This Is My Street (1964) A Man for All Seasons (1966) The Sailor from Gibraltar (1967) Sinful Davey (1969) Before Winter Comes (1969) In Search of Gregory (1969) Mr. Forbush and the Penguins (1971) 10 Rillington Place (1971) The Pied Piper (1972) Little Malcolm (1974) The Ghoul (1975) La linea del fiume (1975) East of Elephant Rock (1977) Three Dangerous Ladies (1977) The Disappearance (1977) Watership Down (1978) The Shout (1978) Midnight Express (1978) The Lord of the Rings (1978) Alien (1979) The Elephant Man (1980) Heaven’s Gate (1980) Night Crossing (1981) History of the World: Part I (1981) Partners (1982) The Plague Dogs (1982) The Osterman Weekend (1983) Champions (1984) Success Is the Best Revenge (1984) The Hit (1984) Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) After Darkness (1985) The Black Cauldron (1985) Jake Speed (1986) The Hunting of the Snark (1987) Rocinante (1987) From the Hip (1987) Aria (1987) Vincent (1987) Spaceballs (1987) White Mischief (1988) La nuit Bengali (1988) Little Sweetheart (1989) Scandal (1989) Romeo-Juliet (1990) Windprints (1990) The Field (1990) Frankenstein Unbound (1990) I Dreamt I Woke Up (1991) King Ralph (1991) Lapse of Memory (1992) Kölcsönkapott idö (1993) L’oeil qui ment (1993) Monolith (1993) Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993) Thumbelina (1994) Second Best (1994) Saigon Baby (1995) Two Nudes Bathing (1995) Rob Roy (1995) Dead Man (1995) Wild Bill (1995) Love and Death on Long Island (1997) Contact (1997) Bandyta (1997) The Commissioner (1998) The Climb (1998) Night Train (1998) All the Little Animals (1998) New Blood (1999) Le château des singes (1999) If... Dog... Rabbit... (1999) You’re Dead... (1999) The Tigger Movie (2000) Lost Souls (2000) Tabloid (2001) Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (2001) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001) Miranda (2002) Crime and Punishment (2002) Owning Mahowny (2003) Meeting Che Guevara & the Man from Maybury Hill (2003) Dogville (2003) Hellboy (2004) Short Order (2005) Valiant (2005) The Proposition (2005) Shooting Dogs (2005) Manderlay (2005) The Skeleton Key (2005) V for Vendetta (2005) Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) Boxes (2007) The Oxford Murders (2008) Outlander (2008) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) Lezione 21 (2008) An Englishman in New York (2009) The Limits of Control (2009) 44 Inch Chest (2009) I New York Love You (2009) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I (2010) No One Gets Off in This Town (2010) Angel Makers (2010) TRON 2.0 (2011) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II (2011) |
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